Internet puts children's 'intimate' bedroom secrets for sale on eBay, says Bridget Jones director We've allowed a situation to develop where it is legal for multi-billion dollar industry to wholly, in perpetuity, hold the intimate and personal details of children. She called for a "regulatory framework" that protected young people from the "routine collection of their data to be stored and sold in perpetuity." During the two hour House of Lords debate to mark the 25th anniversary of the internet, Lord Black of Brentwood, a key figure in regulation of newspapers, said the internet had made press regulation "futile." He said: "What the web in all its glorious anarchy has done is to make any form of statutory press control futile in an online age. "As someone who believes passionately in freedom of expression that is one reason to say "Happy Anniversary."" Lord Black, an executive director of Telegraph Media Group, said that the rise of the internet meant that it was now impossible to regulate. He said: "There is so much content from so many publishers, the vast majority of them individuals, being provided in so many jurisdictions, any attempt to censor the web through legal or statutory regulation is ultimately doomed to failure. This is a point which is vital to any debate dear to my heart about press regulation but it was one that was ironically completely ignored during the Leveson enquiry, which was an analogue enquiry for our digital world. Lord Black added that the challenge of the internet was "proving painful for many in publishing but is a change which is absolutely essential for survival. For those that are succeeding, what the internet is doing is to take the UK's iconic newspaper and magazine titles and turn them into global media brands. During the debate, Lord Puttnam, the Labour peer and film producer, called for a 1p tax on every email spent, to raise billions to spend on Third World aid. He said: "This tiny levy could totally change the landscape and opportunities for aid worldwide. If there were such a levy it might just allow people to pause before hitting that quite dreadful reply to all button. Baroness Wheatcroft, who sits on the board of the British Museum, said pensioners needed subsidised broadband not free television licences. She said the internet was a wonderful way for the housebound to stay in touch with people, adding: "In the internet age why on earth are we providing free television licences for people, taxed or not taxed, when in fact we should be offering them subsidised broadband." Another peer, Lord Lucas, said Britain should "take some stand against those parts of the internet that seem to be becoming more powerful than states." He said: "We should stand beside Sherlock Holmes in confronting our digital Charles Augustus Magnussons and the a-moral Amazon, Google, Facebook. "I think we should stop short of Sherlock Holmes" solution of actually shooting them but we should stand up to them. We should not allow them to use legal tax avoidance our own domestic companies that cant take advantage of the routes that the international companies do.