Member

Our children’s safety is far too important to be distracted by this. The noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, is absolutely right. The Government’s suggestion of a consultation makes me very angry. It is not about evidence gathering; it is a mechanism for industry delay. It gives Meta, TikTok, Google and Snapchat six to nine months to lobby, propose alternatives, suggest that the amendment needs refinement, fund research suggesting age verification may or may not work—even though we know it does—and commission the same experts who said that the Online Safety Act would solve this problem.