Tom Collins (Worcester) (Lab): It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Pritchard.

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Themes: Child safety & minors · Online platforms · Search services

Ecosystems: UK Online Safety Act

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Pritchard. At its birth, the internet was envisaged as a great advancement in a free society: decentralised, crowdsourced and open, it would share knowledge across humanity. As it grew, every one of us would own a platform and our voice. Of course, since then bandwidth has increased massively, which means that we now experience a rich variety of media. Storage and compute have increased by many orders of magnitude, which has created the power of big data, and generative capabilities have emerged quite recently, creating a whole new virtual wor

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Pritchard. At its birth, the internet was envisaged as a great advancement in a free society: decentralised, crowdsourced and open, it would share knowledge across humanity. As it grew, every one of us would own a platform and our voice. Of course, since then bandwidth has increased massively, which means that we now experience a rich variety of media. Storage and compute have increased by many orders of magnitude, which has created the power of big data, and generative capabilities have emerged quite recently, creating a whole new virtual wor…

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