Operates a social platform, in the United States

18 U.S.C. 2705(b) · Read the law's page

• Applies to a provider of an electronic communications service or a remote computing service to whom a warrant, subpoena, or court order under section 2703 is directed.
• If a court has ordered you under section 2705(b) not to notify any other person of the existence of a warrant, subpoena, or court order directed to you, do not notify any other person of it for the period the court sets.

17 U.S.C. 512 · Read the law's page

• Register a designated agent with the Copyright Office through its online registration system, and post the agent's name, address, phone number and e-mail address on your website in a location the public can reach, to keep the section 512(c) safe harbour for content your users store. Keep both current, and renew the registration before it expires three years after it is registered.
• Remove or disable access to material expeditiously once you have actual knowledge that it or an activity using it is infringing, or become aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent, to keep the section 512(c) safe harbour.
• Respond expeditiously to remove or disable access to material identified in a notification of claimed infringement that substantially meets section 512(c)(3)(A): a written communication to your designated agent with the complainant's signature, identification of the work and of the material and its location, contact information, a good faith statement, and a statement of accuracy and authority under penalty of perjury. If a notification lacks some elements but substantially includes the identification of the work, the identification of the material and the complainant's contact information, promptly try to contact the complainant or help them send a compliant notification, because otherwise the incomplete notification is considered in deciding whether you have knowledge or awareness.
• Do not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to infringing activity that you have the right and ability to control, to keep the section 512(c) and 512(d) safe harbours.
• Adopt and reasonably implement a policy that terminates, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of subscribers and account holders who are repeat infringers, tell subscribers and account holders about it, and accommodate and do not interfere with standard technical measures, to be eligible for any limitation on liability in section 512.
• When you remove material a subscriber stored, promptly take reasonable steps to notify the subscriber. On a counter notification that meets section 512(g)(3), promptly give the complainant a copy and say you will replace the material in 10 business days, then replace it not less than 10, nor more than 14, business days after receipt unless your designated agent first receives notice that the complainant has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the subscriber. This keeps the section 512(g)(1) protection from claims based on the removal.
• To use the section 512(d) safe harbour for a directory, index, reference, pointer or hypertext link, act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material once you have actual knowledge or awareness that it is infringing, and respond expeditiously to a notification that identifies the reference or link to be removed.
• To use the section 512(b) safe harbour for automatic caching, transmit the material to later users without modification, follow the refresh rules the originating person sets under a generally accepted industry standard protocol, do not interfere with technology that returns usage information to the originating person, honor any access condition such as payment or a password, and, for material the originating person made available online without the copyright owner's authorization, respond expeditiously to remove or disable access to it on a notification that meets section 512(b)(2)(E).
• To use the section 512(a) safe harbour for transmitting, routing or providing connections, let a person other than you initiate the transmission, carry it out through an automatic technical process without selecting the material, do not select the recipients except as an automatic response to another person's request, keep no copy accessible to anyone other than the anticipated recipients or for longer than reasonably necessary, and do not modify the content.
• On receipt of a section 512(h) subpoena that a district court clerk issued to identify an alleged infringer, expeditiously disclose to the copyright owner, or the person the owner authorized, the information the subpoena requires, to the extent you have it, even if you have not responded to the notification.
• Do not knowingly materially misrepresent, in a notification or a counter notification under section 512, that material or activity is infringing or that it was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification.

18 U.S.C. 2333(d)(2) · Read the law's page

• Do not knowingly provide substantial assistance to an act of international terrorism committed, planned or authorized by an organization that was designated as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act on the date of the act: section 2333(d)(2) reaches any person who aids and abets such an act, and section 1 of title 1 counts companies among persons.
• Do not conspire with the person who committed such an act of international terrorism.

18 U.S.C. 2713 and 2703(h) · Read the law's page

• Applies to a provider of an electronic communication service or a remote computing service, including a provider that stores or processes customers' communications or records for them, once legal process under chapter 121 of title 18 reaches it.
• If you provide an electronic communication service or a remote computing service, comply with the preservation, backup and disclosure obligations of chapter 121 for the contents of a wire or electronic communication and any record or other information about a customer or subscriber within your possession, custody or control, whether the data is located inside or outside the United States.
• To challenge legal process under section 2703 for the contents of a subscriber's communications on the ground that disclosure would create a material risk of violating a qualifying foreign government's laws, file the motion to modify or quash within 14 days after you were served, unless the government agrees to more time or the court allows it on an application made within the 14 days.
• While a motion under section 2703(h) is pending, preserve the information sought; you need not produce it unless the court finds that immediate production is necessary to prevent an adverse result identified in section 2705(a)(2).

Pub. L. 118-50, div. H, 138 Stat. 955 (15 U.S.C. 9901 note) · Read the law's page

• It reaches you if you provide a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) or internet hosting services through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States distribute, maintain, or update an application operated by ByteDance Ltd., TikTok, or a covered company the President has determined to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States, or if you own or control such an application (section 2(a) and (b)).
• Do not distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application within the land or maritime borders of the United States, either by providing services through a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) or by providing internet hosting services, once the prohibition applies to that application (section 2(a)(1)).
• If you own or control a foreign adversary controlled application, provide a user within the land or maritime borders of the United States who asks, before the prohibition applies, all the available data related to the user's account, including posts, photos, and videos and all other account information, in a machine readable format (section 2(b)).
• The prohibition does not apply to an application for which a qualified divestiture is executed before the date on which the prohibition would begin to apply to it, and it ceases to apply to an application for which a qualified divestiture is executed after that date (section 2(c)(1)).
• Services necessary for you to attain compliance with subsections (a) and (b) are outside both subsections (section 2(c)(2)).

Pub. L. 119-12, S. 146, 119th Cong. (2025) · Read the law's page

• Establish a process to remove a nonconsensual intimate visual depiction, including an AI-generated depiction, within 48 hours of a valid request from the depicted individual or their representative.

18 U.S.C. 2421A · Read the law's page

• Do not own, manage or operate an interactive computer service, or conspire or attempt to do so, with the intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person: section 2421A(a) makes that a federal offense.
• Do not own, manage or operate an interactive computer service with that intent while promoting or facilitating the prostitution of 5 or more persons, or while acting in reckless disregard of the fact that your conduct contributed to sex trafficking in violation of section 1591(a): section 2421A(b) makes that an aggravated offense, and an injured person may recover damages and attorneys' fees from you under section 2421A(c).

18 U.S.C. 2702-2703 · Read the law's page

• Applies to a provider of an electronic communication service or a remote computing service to the public, and to a governmental entity that seeks a customer's communications or records from such a provider.
• If you provide an electronic communication service to the public, do not knowingly divulge the contents of a communication in electronic storage by that service to any person or entity unless an exception in section 2702(b) applies.
• If you provide a remote computing service to the public, do not knowingly divulge the contents of a communication you maintain for a subscriber or customer solely to store or process it unless an exception in section 2702(b) applies.
• If you provide either service to the public, do not knowingly divulge a record or other information about a subscriber or customer, other than the contents of communications, to a governmental entity unless an exception in section 2702(c) applies; the prohibition does not reach a disclosure of such a record to a person other than a governmental entity.
• Give a governmental entity the contents of a communication only on the process section 2703 requires: a warrant for contents in electronic storage for 180 days or less, and for other contents a warrant, or a subpoena or court order with the prior notice section 2703(b) describes.
• Give a governmental entity a customer record other than contents only on a warrant, a court order under section 2703(d), the customer's consent, a formal written telemarketing-fraud request, or, for the subscriber information listed in section 2703(c)(2), a subpoena.

47 U.S.C. 230 · Read the law's page

• To keep the section 230(c)(1) protection for a post, comment, listing or other item a user supplies, leave its creation and development to the user: the protection covers only information provided by another information content provider, and a person or entity responsible, in whole or in part, for creating or developing information is an information content provider of it.
• Treat output that your own service generates, including output produced from users' prompts or other input, as information you may be responsible for creating or developing in whole or in part: section 230(c)(1) protects only information provided by another information content provider, and section 230(f)(3) makes anyone responsible in that way an information content provider.
• To keep the section 230(c)(2) protection from liability for moderating, restrict access to or the availability of material only by an action voluntarily taken in good faith, for material you consider obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not it is constitutionally protected.
• At the time you enter an agreement with a customer for interactive computer service, notify the customer, in a manner you deem appropriate, that parental control protections such as computer hardware, software or filtering services are commercially available to help limit access to material that is harmful to minors, and identify current providers of such protections or give the customer access to information identifying them.
• Comply with federal criminal law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 and similar State law as you would without section 230: subsection (e) provides that nothing in the section impairs the enforcement of a federal criminal statute or limits the application of that Act or of a similar State law.
• Comply with the federal civil and State criminal sex trafficking provisions listed in section 230(e)(5) as you would without section 230 for any action other than one protected by subsection (c)(2)(A), and do not treat section 230 as limiting or expanding any law pertaining to intellectual property.

H.R. 7757, 119th Congress · Read the law's page

• Applies to large social media and online platforms, and to AI chatbot services.
• Set default privacy and safety settings for minors.
• Verify age before giving access to mature content.
• Provide the AI chatbot disclosure the bill requires.

NO FAKES Act of 2025, S. 1367 · Read the law's page

• This is a bill, not law: S. 1367 was introduced in the Senate on April 9, 2025 and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and its House companion, H.R. 2794, was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Read the lines below as what would apply if it is enacted as introduced.
• Do not publicly display, distribute, transmit or otherwise make available to the public a digital replica, a newly created, computer-generated, highly realistic electronic representation readily identifiable as an individual's voice or visual likeness, without authorization by the applicable right holder (Section 2(c)(2)(A)).
• Do not distribute, import, transmit or otherwise make available to the public a product or service that is primarily designed to produce digital replicas of a specifically identified individual without the authorization of that individual, the right holder or the law (Section 2(c)(2)(B)).
• If you provide an online service that gives public access to user uploaded material, adopt and reasonably implement a policy that terminates repeat violators in appropriate circumstances, and inform your users of it, to keep the safe harbor (Section 2(d)(1)(B)(i)).
• If you provide such an online service, remove or disable access to the identified material as soon as is technically and practically feasible upon a compliant notification, and promptly notify the right holder and the end user who uploaded it (Section 2(d)(1)(B)(ii)).
• If you provide such an online service of the main categories, also remove or disable access to other publicly available instances that match the digital fingerprint of the notified replica and are uploaded after valid notice was processed (Section 2(d)(1)(B)(ii)(II)).
• Register a designated agent with the Copyright Office and make the agent's name, address, telephone number and email address available through the online service, including on its website (Section 2(d)(2)).
• Do not send a notification that knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is an unauthorized digital replica, and undertake a good faith review of whether the material qualifies as a digital replica before sending one (Section 2(d)(4)).
• Do not rely on a disclaimer that a digital replica is unauthorized or was generated through the use of artificial intelligence as a defense to a civil action (Section 2(e)(3)).

NO FAKES Act of 2026, S. 4591 · Read the law's page

• This is a bill, not law: Senate Bill 4591 was reported by the Committee on the Judiciary with an amendment in the nature of a substitute on June 24, 2026 and placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar, and has not passed either chamber. Read the lines below as what would apply if it is enacted as reported.
• Do not publicly display, distribute, transmit or otherwise make available to the public a digital replica, a newly created, computer-generated, highly realistic electronic representation readily identifiable as an individual's voice or visual likeness, without authorization by the applicable right holder (Section 2(c)(2)(A)).
• Do not distribute, import, transmit or otherwise make available to the public a product or service that is primarily designed to produce digital replicas of a specifically identified individual without the authorization of the individual, the right holder or the law (Section 2(c)(2)(B)(i)).
• A license of the digital replication right while the individual is living is valid only if it is in writing and signed, includes a reasonably specific description of the intended uses of the digital replica, and runs no longer than 10 years (Section 2(b)(2)(B)).
• If you provide an online service, on a compliant notification remove or disable access to the identified material as soon as is technologically and practically feasible, and take reasonable steps to promptly notify the right holder and the party that placed the material on the service, to keep the safe harbor (Section 2(d)(1)(B)(ii)).
• If you provide an online service that predominantly gives public access to user uploaded material, also remove or disable access to other publicly available instances that match the digital fingerprint of the notified material and are uploaded after valid notice was processed (Section 2(d)(1)(B)(ii)(I)(bb)).
• Register a designated agent with the Copyright Office and make the agent's name, address, telephone number and email address available through the online service in a location accessible to the public (Section 2(d)(2)(A)).
• Do not send a notification or counter-notification that knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is, or is not, an unauthorized digital replica, and consider in good faith the issues the Section lists before sending one (Section 2(d)(5)(A)).
• Do not rely on a disclaimer that a use of a digital replica was unauthorized or was generated through artificial intelligence as a defense to a civil action (Section 2(e)(4)).

S. 1748, 119th Congress · Read the law's page

• Applies to online platforms, video games, messaging and streaming services likely to be used by minors.
• Meet a duty of care to prevent and mitigate specified harms to minors.
• Turn on default safeguards for known minors.
• Provide parental tools for known minors.
• Provide the transparency reporting the bill mandates.