Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay: ...remove this content quickly when it is reported to them, as with all other illegal content which is not in Schedule 7. My noble friend Lord Bethell anticipated later debates on age verification and pornography. If he permits, I will come back on his points then. I have noted his question for that discussion as well as the question from the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, on financial scams and...
Lord Allan of Hallam: ...prohibit swearing in a vibrant political community for adults only. There are lots of areas where people understand that the context is different. For example, there are places where nudity—not pornography—is okay, and places where it is not. So having different terms of service for different types of service is healthy, but I also think that Ofcom making sure that people do what they...
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay: ...on to VPNs or other similar alternatives. That is a point worth noting, not just in this group but as we consider all these amendments, particularly when we talk later on about age verification, pornography and so on. Services will need to think about how safety measures could be circumvented and take steps to prevent that, because they need to mitigate risk effectively. There may also be...
Lord Bethell: ...and disreputable character started a business in a shed in Romania with a dozen employees. By most people’s assessment, it would have been considered a small business but, through his content of pornography and the physical assault of women, he extremely quickly built something that served an estimated 3 billion pages, and it has had a huge impact on the children of the English-speaking...
Lord Bethell: I am sorry to come back to the same point, but let us take the Twitter example. As a publisher of pornography, does Twitter then inherit Part 5 responsibilities in as much as it is publishing pornography?
Lord Moylan: I beg the noble Baroness’s pardon; I took that for granted. There are certain things—access to pornography, material encouraging self-harm and things of that sort—where one has to have zero tolerance, but not everything. I am sorry I took that for granted, so I fully accept that I should have made that more explicit in my remarks. Not everything is to be zero-toleranced, so to speak,...
Baroness Fox of Buckley: ...is the majority of them. That is what I am suggesting, rather than that we assume they are all guilty and then they have to get exempted. Interestingly, the noble Lord, Lord McCrea, asked how many pornography sites are in scope and which pornographic websites have a million or fewer users. I am glad I do not know the answer to that, otherwise people might wonder why I did. The point is...
the Bishop of Guildford: My Lords, one of our clergy in the diocese of Guildford has been campaigning for more than a decade, as have others in this Committee, on children’s access to online pornography. With her, I support the amendments in the names of the noble Baronesses, Lady Kidron and Lady Harding. Her concerns eventually made their way to the floor of the General Synod of the Church of England in a powerful...
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay: ...content through its illegal content duties but its child safety duties add an additional layer of protection so that children are protected from harmful or inappropriate content such as grooming, pornography and bullying. I look forward to contributions from the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, and others who will, I know, make sure that our debates are properly focused on that. Through their...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of existing laws in preventing the distribution of illegal content, including extreme pornography and prohibited images of children, via online services.
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick: To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to ensuring that the Online Safety Bill empowers Ofcom to take action against any online services publishing illegal pornography, regardless of whether that content is user-generated or not.
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick: To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Online Safety Bill will enable the regulator to proactively assess online pornography services' compliance with age-verification requirements.
Baroness Barran: ...brought together partners, survivors and civil society organisations from more than 57 countries. The noble Lord, Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe, expressed his deep concerns about the availability of pornography to children. As he will know from our Online Safety Bill, we expect companies to use age-verification technology designed to prevent children from accessing services that pose a high...
Vicky Ford: ...challenges that young women are facing today, especially more violent dangers and sex. The contraceptive pill has been around for 70 years, but the violence that women face today is also linked to pornography and other issues.
Keith Brown: ...can be described as misogynistic behaviour that is not necessarily directed at a particular victim but which is likely to harm those who might encounter it. It could include, for example, watching pornography in a public place, where it is quite clearly visible or audible, or having loud conversations about what should be done sexually to women in a place where others can hear. Another way...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how effective the enforcement procedures in the Online Safety Bill will be in relation to operators of online pornography services.
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of violent and abusive online pornography on violence against women and girls.
Miriam Cates: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what representations her Department has received from the pornography industry in the last 12 months; and how many meetings her Department has had with representatives of the industry in that time.
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay: ...touch on a few of the issues raised today. I shall not repeat some of the points I made in my opening speech, given the hour. Many noble Lords raised the very troubling issue of children accessing pornography online, and I want to talk about that initially. The Government share the concerns raised about the lack of protections for children from this harmful and deeply unsuitable content....
Edward Argar: ...activity with a family member under the age of 17 where the offender is over the age of 18, average sentences have increased, as they have in the case of voyeurism and the abuse of children through pornography and prostitution. So, over that period of time, we have seen an increase in the average sentences handed down by the courts for those crimes. As I alluded to with my hon. Friend the...
