Online Harms Legislation Debate

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Online Harms Legislation

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Maternity Services: East Kent
Thursday 13th February 2020

(4 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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I wondered if it would be me or the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), Mr Speaker.

Will the Minister take the opportunity of the regrettable delay in bringing forward draft legislation to consider adopting a rebuttable principle that anything deemed illegal offline, whether the sale of guns, child pornography or whatever, should be similarly illegal online? Will he consider that principle in the legislation?

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