Online Harms: Intimate Images Debate

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Online Harms: Intimate Images

Baroness Grender Excerpts
Wednesday 28th October 2020

(4 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Scott of Bybrook Portrait Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con)
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I have already given that undertaking. The Government will look at all the amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill put forward.

Baroness Grender Portrait Baroness Grender (LD)
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My Lords, if a teenager clicks on a shared link on a social media platform such as WhatsApp or TikTok, which takes them in turn to the illegal sharing of a rape of a 14 year-old girl on Pornhub, who is culpable right now, today, under the current law that has existed for quite a while—the teenager, their parents, WhatsApp, Pornhub, the ISP or the Government, who have promised urgent laws on harm and age but have so far failed to deliver?

Baroness Scott of Bybrook Portrait Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con)
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My Lords, things move on very fast. Yes, I quite agree with the noble Baroness that everybody—the education system, the parents and, particularly, the online organisations—is responsible. That is why we will bring forward legislation on online harms very shortly.