Does my right hon. Friend agree that, in many ways, there are two forms of media already operating in this country? One is printed, published and broadcast from reputable sources, which have assets in this country that we can take action against, or not, and the other form is websites that have either very low assets or no assets in this country with very different accountability. Bizarrely, could we not find ourselves in a position under this system where the only people who can get justice are those who are rich enough, such as Peter Thiel, to destroy the website Gawker, in this case, because it was acting against him, rather than those of us on more modest means who would have absolutely no recourse against these organisations, but yet all the news would have gone online because these regulations would force out our newspapers?
Data Protection Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Tom Tugendhat
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 May 2018.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Data Protection Bill [Lords].
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