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Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 November 2025
Debate
Crime and Policing BillContribution
Once again, that begs the question of whether this is a lack of scope in the OSA or a failure to regulate. On trying to establish that with Ofcom, it pointed me to a letter that appeared to suggest that some chatbots may be search, some may be user-to-user and those that offer pornography would be subject to Part 5 duties. However, that raises two issues. First, it does not seem to cover all types of chatbots, for example Replika, which does not enable user-to-user sharing but promotes itself as:
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