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HANSARD Online Harms White PaperYes, I can confirm that. It is important to repeat that this is a process that we believe is necessary to level the playing field. These are abuses that, if they were happening in…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperI have had no specific conversation with the Home Secretary on exactly that point, although the hon. Lady will recognise, when she has a chance to look at it, that the White Paper…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperMy right hon. Friend identifies one of the most troublesome aspects of online harm—that encryption is extraordinarily difficult for us to wrestle with. That is of course because…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperOn anonymity, as the hon. Gentleman has heard me say and as he recognises, there are powers available; the issue is how quickly they can be used. When we come to consider a duty…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperI am grateful to the hon. Lady and, indeed, the APPG for its work. I hope she will have the chance, with her colleagues, to look carefully at what we propose, respond to the…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperI understand my hon. Friend’s point. Abuse and intimidation are of course covered in this White Paper, and it is important that online platforms do what they can to minimise that…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperYes, I will certainly do that. I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman says about the White Paper. As he will recognise, we have said already that we think freedom of speech is…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperAs my hon. Friend says, the Select Committee helpfully focused on that area. We want the regulator to take responsibility for ensuring that more of this happens. It will, of…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperI cannot give the hon. Lady a date today, but it is imminent. When she sees that document, she will see that it complements what the Online Harms White Paper is designed to do.…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperI can give my hon. Friend that assurance. As he knows from the inquiries that he and his colleagues have been pursuing, there is considerable overlap between the two. We all need…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperThe hon. Lady is right. She has heard me refer to education—I mean that in the broadest sense—for adults, as well as for children. She will know that my right hon. Friend the…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperMy hon. Friend makes a very good point. It will be a challenge to ensure that the regulator employs people of sufficient experience and ability, who can get to grips with the…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperThe right hon. Gentleman makes a good point. As he will recognise, the White Paper deals with some of the harms that he mentions—serious violence and self-harm, in particular. It…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperThe argument about whether such businesses are publishers or platforms takes up a great deal of time, and not necessarily to great purpose. It is better to ask how we can keep the…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperI am grateful to the hon. Lady, and I agree with much of what she says. She asks some good questions, which I will try to answer. It is important that we have a regulator that is…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperI agree with my hon. Friend. He will see in the White Paper provisions to make transparency powers available to the regulator, not just so that it can ask for annual transparency…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperThat was a brave attempt to stretch the concept of online harms a very long way. I simply say to my hon. Friend that we are working on it.08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperThe hon. Lady will recognise that there are a number of ways in which we might approach the problem that she describes, but the process that we are looking at relates to…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperI think there are two points worth making in response to the right hon. Lady. First, how well the platforms hold to their own terms and conditions may well give the regulator a…08 Apr 2019HANSARD Online Harms White PaperI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman not just for what he has said this afternoon but for the open approach he has taken to the discussion of these matters. As he says, this is one…08 Apr 2019