Communications and Digital Committee
Free for all? Freedom of expression in the digital age
1st Report of Session 2021-22 - published 22 July 2021 - HL Paper 54
Contents
Table 1: Average minutes per day spent by UK users on websites owned by these companies/publishers
Figure 1: Percentage of UK adults who have used social media or video sharing platforms, 2011–20
Box 1: Draft Online Safety Bill
Box 2: Theories of freedom of expression
Table 2: Prevalence of harm by age and gender (%)
Table 3: Prevalence of harm by age (%)
Table 4: Ofcom data on prevalence of harm (%)
Box 3: Relevant criminal offences
Figure 2: Social media usage by age
Box 4: Protections for children in the draft Online Safety Bill
Box 5: Facebook Oversight Board
Figure 3: UK Digital Civility Index
Box 6: The draft Online Safety Bill and media literacy
Figure 4: Social media platforms’ reach in the UK, July 2015 to February 2020
Figure 5: Shares of supply by user time spent on social media, July 2015 to February 2020
Figure 6: Intermediation in the online advertising market
Figure 8: Publishers’ share of visibility of articles about Piers Morgan, 1 March to 11 March 2021
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interests
Appendix 4: 10 principles for regulation
Appendix 5: Draft Online Safety Bill correspondence with Ministers
Appendix 6: Communications and Digital Committee engagement events
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/work/745/freedom-of-expression-online/publications/ and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.