Online Safety Bill

Okay; I thank my noble friend for his response. However, I would just say that we never would hav...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 141 and 303 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 141 in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Stevenson and Lo...

My Lords, the speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, raised so many of the challenges that ...

My Lords, what an unusually reticent group we have here for this group of amendments. I had never...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord, but I would like to ask him whether, when the Joint Commi...

Of course. I think we looked at it in the round and thought that stripping away anonymity could i...

Does the noble Lord not think that many people watching and listening to this will be thinking, “...

I entirely understand what the noble Baroness is saying, and I know that she feels particularly s...

I want to reassure the noble Baroness that we did discuss anonymity in relation to the issues tha...

That is a very fair description. We have tried to emphasise throughout the discussion on the Bill...

My Lords, I am pleased to speak on this group of amendments, and I will particularly address the ...

My Lords, the range of the amendments in this group indicates the importance of the Government’s ...

Will my noble friend at least confirm what he said previously: namely, that it is the Government’...

That is my view, on the current state of play, but I cannot pre-empt an assessment made at a poin...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord. Is the answer to my question that the blue tick and the c...

Yes. The blue tick is certainly not identity verification. I will write to confirm on Meta, but t...

My Lords, I would like to say that that was a rewarding and fulfilling debate in which everyone h...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

40: Clause 12, page 12, line 27, after “to” inse...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

43A: Clause 12, page 13, line 20, leave out fr...

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

46: After Clause 12, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, in introducing this group, I will speak directly to the three amendments in my name—Ame...

My Lords, I have slightly abused my position because, as the noble Baroness has just said, this i...

My Lords, I will speak to the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, to whic...

My Lords, I put my name to Amendment 51, which is also in the name of the noble Lords, Lord Steve...

My Lords, at the beginning of Committee, I promised that I would speak only twice, and this is th...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Kamall, who explained well why I ...

My Lords, my Amendment 63 is about the meaning of words. It was an interesting feature of the spe...

My Lords, I hung back in the hope that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead, would ...

My Lords, this is my first opportunity to speak in Committee on this important Bill, but I have f...

My Lords, given the lateness of the hour, I will make just three very brief points. The first is ...

I will not detain noble Lords very long either. Two things have motivated me to be involved in th...

My Lords, I too will be very brief. As a member of the Communications and Digital Committee, I ju...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to have been part of this debate and to have heard how much we are on ...

Lawyers—don’t you love them? How on earth are we supposed to unscramble that at this time of nigh...

I join noble Lords who have sent good wishes for a speedy recovery to the noble Baroness, Lady Fe...

Why would it not be possible for us to try to define what the public interest might be, and not l...

I ask the noble Viscount to bear with me. I will come on to this a bit later. I do not think it i...

It is so complicated that the Minister is almost enticing me to stand up and ask about it. Let us...

Yes, Ofcom, which is bound by it through the Human Rights Act 1998, can ask those questions and m...

It is late at night and this is slightly tedious, but in the worst of all possible circumstances,...

Platforms will be guided by Ofcom in taking measures to comply with their duties which are recomm...

That is the point I was making.

It worked. In seriousness, we will both consult the record and, if the noble Lord wants more, I a...

My Lords, your Lordships will want me to be brief, bearing in mind the time. I am very grateful f...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

50A: Clause 13, page 14, line 8, at end insert...