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Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 December 2025

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

I also really want to reiterate this idea about things that happen online and how they land in real life. Some noble Lords will be aware of a quite horrific explosion of online abuse in Korea about a year ago. One of the things that struck me at the time was that knowing where the woman lived plus having something to shame them with then coerced them into further acts, some of which were not illegal, such as licking a toilet floor, but the coercion was built into a scenario by having more than one piece of information. Again, I really want to underline what the noble Baroness said about that and say that something that seems incremental, perhaps a little less important, in conjunction with other things becomes a hugely powerful tool of coercion.

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