(h) Requirements for social media companies.--A social media
company who operates in or has users who reside in this
Commonwealth shall perform the following:
(1) Inform a user in writing why the user's account has
been banned or disabled within 30 days of the action and
offer the user recourse to restore the user's account.
(2) Publish and consistently apply standards for user
censoring, shadowbanning and deplatforming.
(i) Penalty.--An owner or operator of a social media website
that has engaged in practices described in subsection (a) has
committed an unlawful act or practice under the act of December
17, 1968 (P.L.1224, No.387), known as the Unfair Trade Practices
and Consumer Protection Law, and shall be subject to applicable
penalties under the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer
Protection Law.
(j) Application.--This section shall not apply to any of the
following:
(1) A social media website that deletes or censors a
social media website user's speech or that uses an algorithm
to disfavor or censure speech that:
(i) calls for immediate acts of violence;
(ii) calls for a user to self-harm;
(iii) is obscene, lewd, filthy or lascivious
material or material harmful to minors;
(iv) is the result of operational error;
(v) is the result of a court order;
(vi) comes from an inauthentic source or involves
false impersonation;
(vii) entices criminal conduct;
(viii) involves minors bullying other minors;
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