Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that establishes a law regarding violent content on social media.

Highlights:

• Establishes Online Violence Prevention Act (Page 2).

• Defines “violent post” as one containing “true threat” against specific person (Page 3).

• Requires social media platform to “clearly and conspicuously state whether it has a mechanism for reporting violent posts that is available to users and nonusers of the platform” (Page 3).

• Authorizes target of online threat to seek court order requiring platform to remove violent post and “any related violent post the court determines shall be removed in the interests of justice” (Page 3).

• Prohibits issuance of such post removal orders “if the date and time when the true threat that was threatened to occur has passed” (Page 4).

• Exempts from Act social media platforms with fewer than 1 million “discrete monthly users” (Page 4).

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