UK Parliament / Open data

Online Safety Bill

Thank you. I may be reading the noble Lord’s Amendment 38A excessively critically. I will look at it again. To try to reassure the noble Lord, the Bill already ensures that all services take steps to remove illegal manufactured or manipulated content when they become aware of it. Harmful and illegal misinformation and disinformation is covered in that way.

Amendment 42 would require providers to try to establish on a large scale what is a genuinely held belief that is more than an opinion. In response, I fear that providers would excessively apply the user empowerment features to manage that burden.

A number of noble Lords referred to the discrepancy between the list—

6.30 pm

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Reference

829 c1722 

Session

2022-23

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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