Part of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons at on 26 May 2022.
Chris Philp
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
The Online Safety Bill, which went into Committee on Tuesday, rightly has extremely strong protections for women and girls. The hon. Lady will have noticed that, in schedule 7, crimes such as harassment, stalking, revenge porn and extreme porn are designated as “priority offences” , and those measures protect women in particular. They are offences where social media firms have proactively to take steps to prevent that content appearing online. We have also added cyber-flashing as a new criminal offence to the Bill.