Online Safety Bill

I support these amendments, which were set out wonderfully by the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson. I w...

My Lords, I am very pleased that the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, has given us the opportunity to ...

My Lords, I am grateful for this short and focused debate, which has been helpful, and for the po...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for that very detailed response, which I will have t...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

16A: Clause 8, page 7, line 23, after “19(2)” ...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

16B: Clause 9, page 7, line 27, leave out “all...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

17: Clause 9, page 7, line 30, leave out “prevent individuals fr...

My Lords, this is a very large and wide-ranging group of amendments. Within it, I have a number o...

Just to reinforce the point the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, made on that, I certainly had experience...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. I really wonder whether the Government realise what they are wal...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 128, 130 and 132, as well as Amendments 143 to 153 in this g...

My Lords, this is again a very helpful set of amendments. I want to share some experience that sh...

My Lords, before speaking to my Amendment 137, I want to put a marker down to say that I strongly...

I ask the Committee to have a level of imagination here because I have been asked to read the spe...

I do not know who advised the noble Baroness—and forgive me for getting up and getting all former...

I beg the pardon of the Committee. I asked about it and was misinformed; I will do as the noble B...

My Lords, I support the amendments in this group that probe how removing illegal material is unde...

In talking about individuals and investigations, the noble Baroness reminded me of one class of c...

That is very helpful.

I am concerned that removing so-called illegal content for the purpos...

My Lords, my contribution will be less officious than my intervention earlier in this group. In t...

It is a great honour to follow my noble friend. I completely agree with her that this is a powerf...

I want to clarify one point. I have had a slightly different experience, which is that for many p...

I defer to the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, on speech crime. That is not the area of my expertise, a...

My Lords, I would like to mention one issue that I forgot to mention, and I think it would be mor...

My Lords, we seem to have done it again—a very long list of amendments in a rather ill-conceived ...

My Lords, as well as throwing up some interesting questions of law, this debate has provoked some...

A clean shirt, perhaps?

Yes, that would be welcome.

Can I suggest one of mine?

I thank the noble Lord.

I was pleased to hear about Wicipedia Cymraeg—there being no “k” in...

I am struggling a little to understand why the Minister thinks that sufficient evidence is subjec...

Or indeed any evidence.

I take the noble Lord’s point and my noble friend’s further contribution. I will see whether I ca...

Again, I think that that is clear. I understood from the Bill that, if an American says something...

If it has been committed in the UK and is viewed by a UK user, it can be treated as illegal. I wi...

Before he moves on, is my noble friend going to give any advice to, for example, Welsh Wikipedia,...

I will deal with all the points in the speech. If I have not done so by the end, and if my noble ...

My Lords, it is genuinely difficult to summarise such a wide-ranging debate, which was of a very ...

I am sorry to intrude, but I must say now on the record that I was speaking on my own behalf. The...

I am delighted to hear the noble Baroness say that, and it shows that that pool of common ground ...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

18A: Clause 9, page 8, line 23, at end insert—...

If Amendment 20 is agreed, I cannot call Amendment 21 by reason of pre-emption.

Amendment 2...

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

20: Clause 10, page 9, line 11, leave out paragraphs (a) to ...

My Lords, this amendment and Amendments 74, 93 and 123 are part of a larger group that have been ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. I have listened intently to...

My Lords, I support Amendments 20, 93 and 123, in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady K...

My Lords, I really appreciated the contribution from the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatr...

The report found—I will not give a direct quotation—that social media contributed to the death of...

I completely understand that; I was making the point that there will be disagreements in judgment...

To respond briefly to the noble Baroness, I shall give a specific example of how Amendment 93 wou...

I appreciate that that this is the case we all have in the back of our minds. I am asking whether...

I will answer the noble Baroness more completely when I wind up, but I just want to say that she ...

I will finish here, because we have to get on, but I did not introduce content; it is in the four...

Let us leave it there.

My Lords, I speak in support of these amendments with hope in my heart. I thank the noble Barones...

My Lords, in keeping with the Stevenson-Knight double act, I am leaving it to my noble friend to ...

My Lords, I restate my commitment to Amendments 20, 93 and 123, which are in my name and those of...

My Lords, I support this group of amendments, so ably introduced by my noble friend and other nob...

My Lords, I will echo the sentiments of the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, in my contribution to a...

My Lords, over the last few hours I have praised us for having developed a style of discussion an...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken on this group and for the clarity with which the...

Where are the commercial harms? I cannot totally get my head around my noble friend’s definition ...

In that vein, will the noble Lord clarify whether that definition of content does not include pai...

I was about to list the four Cs briefly in order, which will bring me on to commercial or contrac...

I agree that content, although unfathomable to the outside world, is defined as the Minister says...

I have tried to outline the Bill’s definition of content, which I think will give some reassuranc...

I thank all the speakers. There were some magnificent speeches and I do not really want to pick o...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

21A: Clause 10, page 10, line 1, after “19(2)”...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

22A: Clause 11, page 10, line 6, at end insert...