Just to reinforce the point the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, made on that, I certainly had experience of where the police became the complainants. They would request, for example, that you take down an English Defence League event, claiming that it would be likely to cause a public order problem. I have no sympathy whatever with the English Defence League, but I am very concerned about the police saying “You must remove a political demonstration” to a platform and citing the legal grounds for doing that. The noble Lord is on to a very valid point to be concerned about that.
Online Safety Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Allan of Hallam
(Liberal Democrat)
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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