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Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-Afl)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 January 2025

Debate

Online Safety

Contribution

My Lords, is the Minister sensitive to the dangers to free speech of overfetishising online safety and to the censorship recently admitted to by the head of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg? This is all under the cloak of Governments demanding the clamping down on online harms. Are the Government advising Ofcom to ensure that any overzealousness, however well intentioned, should be reined in for the protection of free speech in a democratic society?

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