My Lords, I will build on my noble friend’s comments. We have what I call the Andrew Tate problem. That famous pornographer and disreputable character started a business in a shed in Romania with a dozen employees. By most people’s assessment, it would have been considered a small business but, through his content of pornography and the physical assault of women, he extremely quickly built something that served an estimated 3 billion pages, and it has had a huge impact on the children of the English-speaking world. A small business became a big, nasty business very quickly. That anecdote reinforces the point that small does not mean safe, and, although I agree with many of my noble friend’s points, the lens of size is perhaps not the right one to look through.
Online Safety Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Bethell
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 27 April 2023.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Online Safety Bill.
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