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HANSARDOnline Safety BillI welcome the Minister’s comments. I am interrupting just because this is my amendment rather than my noble friend Lord Knight’s. The word “scope” caused us some disquiet on this…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a very good and well-focused debate. We have focused deeply on the particular issue I will focus on in my speech about why there is a difference in the…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIf the Minister could write to me on the point once he has had advice, or perhaps inspiration from the Box, that would be very helpful.25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI thank the noble Lord for that. Free expression, my Lords, not free speech.25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillBefore the Minister sits down, he did let slip that he was going on the sleeper, so I do not think that there will be much thinking going on—although I did not sleep a wink the…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMay I have a postcard?25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a good little debate with some excellent speeches, which I acknowledge. Like the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, I was looking at the Joint Committee’s…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am sorry to interrupt. The Minister has twice given a positive response, but he limited it to child sexual exploitation; he did not mention terrorism, which is in fact the…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords—25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIt is a very narrow point, but it is important in terms of the overall approach that we are taking on this. The Minister very accurately described the reasons that the Law…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillYes, freedom of expression. That is right. I will start where the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, finished, although I want to come back and cover other things. This is a very…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am sorry to interrupt the Minister in his flow. Just to go back a little bit, the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Featherstone, attempted to resolve the…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI understand that, but it is an important point to try to get on the record. It is an outcome-based solution that we are looking for, is it not? We are looking for zero activity…23 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for his comprehensive response and for the welcome change in tone and the openness to further debate and discussions. I thank all those who spoke…23 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, it is a privilege to be in your Lordships’ House, and on some occasions it all comes together and we experience a series of debates and discussions that we perhaps would…23 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am sorry to interrupt. The Minister said that he would bear in mind proportionality in relation to size and capacity. Is that not exactly the point that the noble Baroness, Lady…23 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill23 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I rise to move Amendment 110 in my name and thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for his support. This is a complex group of amendments but they are about very…23 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, Amendment 56 proposes a pathway towards setting up an independent ombudsman for the social media space. It is in my name, and I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, it is a pity that we have not had the benefit of hearing from the Minister, because a lot of his amendments in this group seem to bear on some of the more generic points…16 May 2023