the minimum standards should be set in law in the uk. it shouldn'tjust be based on the terms of service written in silicon valley. you want fines, swingeing fines of up to £18 million, as i understand it, and it could go further. it could go to a percentage of their annual turnover. 10% of global annual turnover. which is an astronomical amount of money for some of these giant multinational corporations. no other country at the moment is anywhere close to following britain's lead. do you think britain can plough this furrow on its own? well, yes, i think we can legislate to set the laws that the companies have to follow for content that is accessed by users in the uk. this has already been done elsewhere in the world in different ways by different countries. so germany, for example, enforces its hate speech laws online, and the tech companies can face liability and sanctions against them for failing to act there. but those sorts of massive fines that you're talking about, they would kick in if a company was in serious and repeat breach of its obligations as defined under the act, with no intention of cooperating. there's potentially very big fines to come with that. also within the bill, if a company is not cooperating with the authorities and the regulator, then a named director could face criminal sanctions as well. but those are the most extreme punishments that exist. what we would expect