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Online Safety Bill

I did not say that it would be impossible for a court to do this; I said it was likely to lead to high levels of inconsistency. We are dealing

with what is likely to be very specialist cases. You can imagine this in the context of people feeling non-trivially psychologically harmed by statements about gender, climate, veganism, and so forth. These are the things where you see this happening. The idea that there is going to be consistency across the courts in dealing with these issues is, I think, very unlikely. It will indeed have a chilling effect on people being able to express views that may be controversial but are still valid in an open society.

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Reference

831 c409 

Session

2022-23

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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