00                              HOUSE BILL NO. 7                                                                           
01 "An Act relating to restrictions placed on users of interactive computer services based                                 
02 on content or viewpoint; and adding unlawful acts to the Alaska Unfair Trade Practices                                  
03 and Consumer Protection Act."                                                                                           
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1. AS 45.45 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                  
06 Sec. 45.45.940. Interactive computer service restrictions based on content                                            
07 or viewpoint. (a) A person that is an interactive computer service that represents itself                             
08 as having neutral, impartial, or nonbiased content may not, based on the content or                                     
09       viewpoint expressed by a user of the service,                                                                     
10                 (1)  block the user's content;                                                                          
11                 (2)  censor the user's content;                                                                         
12                 (3)  ban the user from using the service;                                                               
13                 (4)  remove the user's content;                                                                         
14                 (5)  block or partially block the user or the user's content in a way that                              
01       is not readily apparent to the user;                                                                              
02                 (6)  remove the user from a social media platform;                                                      
03                 (7)  require a viewer to take more steps to view the user's content than                                
04       are required to view the content of other users;                                                                  
05                 (8)  remove the ability of the user's content to earn advertising income;                               
06       or                                                                                                                
07                 (9)  otherwise restrict the speech or content of the user on the service.                               
08            (b)  A person that is an interactive computer service does not violate (a) of this                           
09       section if the interactive computer service                                                                       
10 (1)  voluntarily and in good faith restricts access to or availability of                                               
11 content that the interactive computer service reasonably considers to be obscene, lewd,                                 
12 lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, regardless                              
13 of whether the content is protected by the Constitution of the State of Alaska or the                                   
14       Constitution of the United States; or                                                                             
15 (2)  acts to enable, or make available to a person, the technical means to                                              
16       restrict access to content described in (1) of this subsection.                                                   
17 (c)  The prohibition in (a) of this section does not apply to a person that only                                        
18       provides a connection to the Internet or another wide area network.                                               
19            (d)  In this section,                                                                                        
20 (1)  "interactive computer service" means a service, system, access                                                     
21 software provider, Internet website, Internet application, Internet portal, or social                                   
22 media platform that furnishes or enables computer access by multiple users to an                                        
23       Internet server;                                                                                                  
24 (2)  "social media platform" means an Internet platform for users to                                                    
25       share content with other persons;                                                                                 
26 (3)  "user" means a person that posts, uploads, transmits, or otherwise                                                 
27       publishes content through an interactive computer service.                                                        
28    * Sec. 2. AS 45.50.471(b) is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                            
29 (58)  violating AS 45.45.940 (interactive computer service restrictions                                                 
30       based on content or viewpoint).