I want to explain more broadly that I am all for clarifying what the law is about and for simplicity, but that ship has sailed. We have all read the Bill. It is not simple. I do not want this amendment to somehow console us, so that we can say to the public, “This is what the Bill is about”, because it is not what the Bill is about. It is about a range of things that are not contained within the amendment—I would wish them to be removed from the Bill. I am concerned that we think this amendment will resolve a far deeper and greater problem of a complicated Bill that very few of us can grasp in its entirety. We should not con the public that it is a simple Bill; it is not.
Online Safety Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Fox of Buckley
(Non-affiliated)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 19 April 2023.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Online Safety Bill.
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