Online Safety Bill Debate
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Richard Burgon
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Online Safety Bill
Richard Burgon ExcerptsTuesday 17th January 2023
(1 year, 3 months ago)
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Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Rosie Winterton)
In order to ensure that we get everybody in, I am going to introduce a five-minute time limit. I call Richard Burgon.
Richard Burgon (Leeds East) (Lab)
I have listened with interest to all the powerful speeches that have been made today. As legislation moves through Parliament, it is meant to be improved, but the great pity with this Bill is that it has got worse, not better. It is a real tragedy that measures protecting adults from harmful but legal content have been watered down.
I rise to speak against the amendments that have come from the Government, including amendments 11 to 14 and 18 and 19, which relate to the removal of adult safety duties. I am also speaking in favour of new clause 4 from the Labour Front Bench team and amendment 43 from the SNP, which go at least some of the way to protect adults from harmful but legal content.