Is Michelle Donelan's revision of the bill, which removes rules concerning 'legal but harmful' content, in fact an improvement on 'eye-watering potency' or does it leave individuals with no protection?
This was a new category created especially for the bill, which meant that things that it would be legal to say to someone's face would no longer be permissible online, as long as they caused someone harm.
Firms such as Facebook and Twitter were suddenly going to find policing this vague concept, with large fines if they failed to obey. How will that work? How will they tell the difference between an 18-year-old, who needs to be protected, and a 19-year-old, who apparently does not? What will the punishment be if they fail to get it right?Then there's the question of how harm will be defined. As things stand, MPs will create a list of things they believe are harmful, which the platforms will have to interpret. This will not be smooth sailing.
The new bill leaves many areas untouched. But if it is passed - and given the strength of feeling in the Lords that is far from certain - then it will be a sweeping, complicated law of immense significance.
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