Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that expands legal recourse options for oklahomans censored by social media platforms.

Highlights:

• Classifies a “social media website” as a website or application that enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages or images and meets the following criteria (Sec. 1.A-6):

• Is open to the public,

• Has more than 75 million subscribers, and

• Has not been specifically affiliated with any one political party or religion from its inception.

• Establishes the owner or operator of a social media website who contracts with users in this state is subject to a private right of action by a social media website user if the social media website purposely (Sec. 1.B):

• Deletes or censors a social media website user’s political speech or religious speech; or

• Uses an algorithm to suppress political speech or religious speech.

• Specifies damages available to a social media website user includes the following (Sec. 1.C):

• A minimum of $75,000 per intentional deletion or censoring of the social media website user’s speech;

• Actual damages,

• Punitive damages if aggravating factors are present, and

• Other applicable forms of equitable relief.

• Specifies a social media website is immune from liability if it deletes or censors a social media website user’s speech or uses an algorithm to disfavor or censure speech that (Sec. 1.E-1):

• Calls for immediate acts of violence;

• Is obscene or pornographic in nature;

• Was the result of operational error;

• Was the result of a court order;

• Came from an inauthentic source or involved false impersonation;

• Enticed criminal conduct; or

• Involved minors bullying minors.

• Specifies only users who are 18 years of age or older have standing to bring an action pursuant to this section (Sec. 1-2.F).

• Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil cause of action on behalf of social media website users who reside in this state whose political speech or religious speech has been censored by a social media website (Sec. 1-2.G).

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