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Baroness D’Souza (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 7 January 2025

Debate

Foreign-owned Social Media Companies

Contribution

My Lords, does the noble Baroness the Leader agree that although free speech can be extremely offensive at times, the dividing line is the context in which it occurs, and that the rules governing hate speech in this country—and criminalisation of speech—must always take into account that context? It is the context that determines whether that speech will have further very undesirable outcomes.

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