17.544 Restrictions on use of social media platform by registrants -- Retroactivity -
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(1)As used in this section, "social media platform":
(a)Means a website or application that is open to the public, allows a user to
create an account, and enables users to do all of the following:
1. Interact socially with other users within the confines of the website or
application;
2. Construct a public or semipublic profile for the purpose of signing into
and using the website or application;
3. Populate a list of other users with whom an individual shares or has the
ability to share a social connection within the website or application;
and
4. Create or post content viewable by others, including on message boards,
chat rooms, video channels, direct or private messages, or chats, or on a
landing page or main feed that presents the user with content generated
by other users; and
(b)Does not include:
1. A broadband internet access service as defined by the Federal
Communications Commission;
2. An electronic mail service;
3. A search engine service;
4. A cloud storage or cloud computing service;
5. An online service, application, or website in which interaction between
users is limited to reviewing products offered for sale by electronic
commerce or commenting on reviews posted by other users; or
6. An online service, application, or website:
a. That consists primarily of information or content that is not user-
generated but is preselected by the provider; and
b. For which any chat, comments, or interactive functionality is
incidental to, directly related to, or dependent upon the provision
of the content described by subdivision a. of this subparagraph.
(2)A registrant who has committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor
shall not create or have control of an account on a social media platform unless the
account displays his or her full legal name.
(3)This section shall apply retroactively.
(4)Any person who violates subsection
(2)of this section shall be guilty of a Class A
misdemeanor for the first offense, and a Class D felony for a second or subsequent
offense.