Proyectos de ley › 89.ª Asamblea General
Relating to censorship of expression on interactive computer services and social media platforms and including retroactive applicability provisions
Temas:Civil rightsCourts & civil lawTechnology & privacyKids online & social media
Dónde está ahora
- Hecho: Presentado26 de enero de 2022
- Se detuvo: SubcomitéMurió al terminar la Asamblea General
- Sigue: Comité de la Cámara
- Sigue: Lo aprueba la Cámara
- Sigue: Comité del Senado
- Sigue: Lo aprueba el Senado
- Sigue: A gobernador(a)
- Sigue: Firmado como ley
Murió al terminar la sesión La sesión de 2022 terminó el 24 de mayo de 2022, la última sesión ordinaria de la Asamblea General. Los proyectos que no pasaron por ambas cámaras murieron. ¿Qué es el embudo (funnel)?
Qué contiene
Resumen con IA Large social media platforms with at least 50 million users cannot block or censor what people in Iowa post based on their opinions or where they live. If a company breaks this rule, users can sue them in court to seek money and other legal remedies. However, these platforms are still allowed to remove content that involves illegal harassment or incites violence. (Todavía no está traducido al español.)1
Lea la explicación oficial (en inglés)
This bill relates to censorship of expression on interactive computer services and social media platforms. The bill defines “censor”, “expression”, “interactive computer service”, “receive”, “social media platform”, “unlawful expression”, and “user”. The bill prohibits an interactive computer service or social media platform from censoring a user’s expression based upon the viewpoint of the user or another person, the viewpoint represented, or the geographic location of a user in the state. The bill does not allow an interactive computer service or social media platform to create a waiver of the protection provided within the bill. The bill applies only to users who reside, do business within, or share within the state and the expression is done on a 50-million user interactive computer service or social media platform within the state. The bill does not subject an interactive computer service or a social media platform to any cause of action or liability that the interactive computer service or social media platform is protected from by federal law. An interactive computer service or social media platform may censor expression that the interactive computer service or social media platform is specifically authorized to censor by federal law and that unlawfully harasses individuals or unlawfully incites violence. An interactive computer service or a social media platform may authorize a user’s ability to receive objectionable expression at the specific active request of that user. The bill does not apply to an interactive computer service or a social media platform that is providing expression to a user in a particular instance in response to that user’s express request or to commentary by an interactive computer service or a social media platform. The bill does not change existing intellectual property law or violate doctrine on the dormant commerce clause. The bill provides remedies for a user’s expression that was unlawfully limited. The bill authorizes a user to bring an action for a violation of the provisions of the bill and a prevailing user is entitled to declaratory relief, including costs and reasonable and necessary attorney fees, injunctive relief, and civil damages for each act of censorship of $75,000. A court must hold an interactive computer service or a social media platform in contempt if it fails to promptly comply with a court order. The bill may only be enforced through private civil action and not by public officials or entities. The bill applies retroactively to a user before the effective date of the bill to remedy censorship of the user’s ability to share or receive expression that occurred before the effective date if censorship continues after the bill takes effect.