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Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 09 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) Twitter policy, for example, is to take down material that offends protected characteristics such as - Speech Link
2: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) research, which has been circulated, just over one in three UK women have experienced online abuse or harassment - Speech Link
3: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) to a much broader part of the internet than Twitter, or things like it. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Buscombe (CON - Life peer) five amendments focused on the need to address the issue of activist-motivated online bullying and harassment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Tue 09 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (LAB - Life peer) Anonymous accounts are more likely to engage in abuse or harassment and, for those at the receiving end - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) I will write to confirm on Meta, but they are separate and, as the example of blue ticks and Twitter - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Thu 27 Apr 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) One of those is Section 5 of that Act, “Harassment, alarm or distress”. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (CON - Life peer) remote communities, and are increasingly at risk of or are already suffering awful online abuse and harassment - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Anonymous trolling, Twitter storms and spreading false information are incredibly unpleasant. - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) This will protect children from harms such as harassment and abuse, and, under the illegal content safety - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hate Crime - Mon 24 Apr 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, we await the Second Reading of the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill, a Private - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) the current situation, there are plenty of reasons why hate is present in society—you can start with Twitter - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: 25th Anniversary - Thu 30 Mar 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (LAB - Leeds Central) I say to the Chair of the Select Committee, who reflected on what I think Tony Blair said about if Twitter - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) ensure that journalists are able to go about their work safely, free from attack, intimidation and harassment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill
2nd readingLords Handard - Fri 24 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LDEM - Life peer) harassment protections will cover all types of harassment under the Equality Act 2010. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Leicester (CON - Excepted Hereditary) staff’s preferred gender pronouns would be the tip of the iceberg.Just earlier this week, I saw on Twitter—and - Speech Link
3: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) Clause 1 defines the harassment simply as “harassment”; it does not say “sexual harassment”. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Order Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 07 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Desmond Swayne (CON - New Forest West) Friend were to go on Twitter now, he would find a recording of an arresting officer telling a lady that - Speech Link
2: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) I am not advocating that in any way, but harassment cuts both ways. - Speech Link
3: Bernard Jenkin (CON - Harwich and North Essex) ; it says that it shall not be taken as harassment. - Speech Link
4: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) The behaviour that will not be taken as harassment is private prayer. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
LGBT History Month - Thu 02 Feb 2023
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) The passage of the Equality Act 2010 protected LGBT+ people from discrimination, harassment and victimisation - Speech Link
2: Nadia Whittome (LAB - Nottingham East) Pride is not the Home Office posting rainbows on Twitter and then deporting LGBT+ asylum seekers to Rwanda - Speech Link
3: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) deal for working people that will require employers to create and maintain workplaces free from LGBT+ harassment - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) Harassment, discrimination and violence against LGBT people continue to exist in our society, and the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
2nd reading - Wed 01 Feb 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) All the major social media platforms such as Meta, Twitter and TikTok say that they ban abuse and harassment - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (CON - Life peer) As we have heard, women and girls are 27 times more likely to experience harassment online.We have also - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (LAB - Life peer) , so that people can be prosecuted.Can the Minister explain how these people will be prosecuted for harassment - Speech Link
4: Viscount Colville of Culross (CB - Excepted Hereditary) For weeks, she was unable to get any response from Twitter. - Speech Link
5: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Twitter and the rest of them are clearly publishers. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crime and Neighbourhood Policing - Tue 31 Jan 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) We passed the landmark Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and we are now backing a new law on street harassment. - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) I am sorry to burst the Twitter bubble for Opposition Members, but those are the facts.Speaking of facts - Speech Link