Minister, I'm asking for a business statement today regarding the UK Government's Online Safety Bill, as it was raised in the Senedd, in the Chamber, last week. In February of this year, the UK Government announced two regressive and unworkable additions to the Online Safety Bill. Many human rights and digital rights camp groups have said that with each new announcement the Bill demonstrates itself to make the online world less safe for the people that it claims to protect, particularly LGBTQ+ people, survivors of abuse and ethnic minorities.

Firstly, by cracking down on anonymity

'The government claims that abuse is "thought" to be linked to anonymity but in practice, most online abuse is done by very identifiable people', but for victims of abuse and prejudice, anonymity is necessary and the only way that they can access the online world while staying safe. Secondly, claiming to crack down on 'legal but harmful' content, the UK Government states that adult users will be able to opt out of this. However, errors in filters and content moderating algorithms have a tendency to discriminate against the people that these proposals are designed to protect. It is well known that LGBTQ+ content is routinely identified by machines as potentially sexual in nature and blocked.

So, my question is: could I therefore ask for a statement on how the Welsh Government is engaging with the UK Government on the Online Safety Bill and what Ministers are doing to ensure that internet safety is achieved through more rights to citizens as opposed to the dismantling of free speech that we are seeing in this Bill?