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Britain is ‘at war’ with Big Tech and Parliament must act like it to pass the Online Safety Bill, Lord Stevenson has urged.
The Labour peer called on colleagues to make the most of a ‘very strange situation’ of having near complete cross-party support for the legislation.
Paying tribute to teenager Molly Russell and other victims of online harms, he encouraged them to minimise ‘dissent’ and work together to ensure it was delivered in time.
Speaking in the House of Lords during the Bill’s second reading on Wednesday, he said: ‘That is a big ask; I do not think it has been done, except during wartime. But we are at war – at war with these people who are trying to run our lives, and we should try to get together and defeat them.’
Peers also took the opportunity to highlight the importance of following the
