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Passed in the wake of the Buffalo, New York, shooting. Struck down by <a href="/wiki/Volokh_v._James" title="Volokh v. James">Volokh <i>v.</i> James</a> (2023). </p> </div></div><div class="ws-noexport" id="ws-data" style="speak:none"><span id="ws-article-id">4154585</span><span id="ws-title">New York Assembly bill A7865A</span><span id="ws-year">2021</span><span id="ws-author">Patricia Fahy</span></div></div> <div class="prp-pages-output" lang="en"> <span><span class="pagenum ws-pagenum" id="1" data-page-number="1" data-page-name="Page:New York Assembly bill A7865A.pdf/1" data-page-index="1" data-page-quality="3" title="Page:New_York_Assembly_bill_A7865A.pdf/1"><span id="pageindex_1" class="pagenum-inner ws-noexport"></span></span></span><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r13089542">.mw-parser-output .wst-center{text-align:center;display:table;margin:0 auto 0 auto}.mw-parser-output .wst-center.wst-center-nomargin>p{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="wst-center tiInherit wst-center-nomargin"> <p><span style="font-size:144%;"><b>STATE OF NEW YORK</b></span> </p> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r14416321">.mw-parser-output .wst-rule{background-color:#202122;color:inherit;width:auto;margin:2px auto 2px auto;height:1px}.mw-parser-output .wst-rule.wst-rule-left{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .wst-rule.wst-rule-right{margin-right:0}.mw-parser-output .wst-rule.__uirule{background-color:#a2a9b1;color:inherit;border:0;margin-top:0.2em;margin-bottom:0.2em}</style><hr class="wst-rule wst-rule-center" style="color:inherit;" /> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r13089542"><div class="wst-center tiInherit wst-center-nomargin"> <p>7865--A </p><p>2021-2022 Regular Sessions </p> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r13089542"><div class="wst-center tiInherit wst-center-nomargin"> <p><span style="font-size:144%;"><b>IN ASSEMBLY</b></span> </p> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r13089542"><div class="wst-center tiInherit wst-center-nomargin"> <p>May 28, 2021 </p> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r14416321"><hr class="wst-rule wst-rule-center" style="color:inherit;width:5em;" /> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r13514121">.mw-parser-output .hanging-indent{margin-left:2em;text-indent:-2em}.mw-parser-output .hanging-indent p{text-indent:-2em}.mw-parser-output .hanging-indent.wst-hanging-indent-mid p:first-child{text-indent:0}.mw-parser-output .wst-div-col .wst-hanging-indent p:nth-child(1){margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .wst-hanging-indent-mid>.wst-toc-dotcell:first-child{text-indent:0}</style><div class="hanging-indent" style="">Introduced by M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Science and Technology -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r13514121"><div class="hanging-indent" style="">AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring social media networks to provide and maintain mechanisms for reporting hateful conduct on their platform</div> <p><span class="templateunderlined" style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:auto;">The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:</span> </p><p>Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 394-ccc to read as follows: </p><p><span class="templateunderlined" style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:auto;">§ 394-ccc. Social media networks; hateful conduct prohibited. <span id="(1)"></span>1. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:</span> </p><p><span class="templateunderlined" style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:auto;"><span id="(1)(a)"></span>(a) "Hateful conduct" means the use of a social media network to vilify, humiliate, or incite violence against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.</span> </p><p><span class="templateunderlined" style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:auto;"><span id="(1)(b)"></span>(b) "Social media network" means service providers, which, for profit-making purposes, operate internet platforms that are designed to enable users to share any content with other users or to make such content available to the public.</span> </p><p><span class="templateunderlined" style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:auto;"><span id="(2)"></span>2. A social media network that conducts business in the state, shall provide and maintain a clear and easily accessible mechanism for individual users to report incidents of hateful conduct. Such mechanism shall be clearly accessible to users of such network and easily accessed from both a social media networks' application and website, and shall allow the social media network to provide a direct response to any individual reporting hateful conduct informing them of how the matter is being handled.</span> </p><p><span class="templateunderlined" style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:auto;"><span id="(3)"></span>3. Each social media network shall have a clear and concise policy readily available and accessible on their website and application which</span> <span><span class="pagenum ws-pagenum" id="2" data-page-number="2" data-page-name="Page:New York Assembly bill A7865A.pdf/2" data-page-index="2" data-page-quality="3" title="Page:New_York_Assembly_bill_A7865A.pdf/2"><span id="pageindex_2" class="pagenum-inner ws-noexport"></span></span></span><span class="templateunderlined" style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:auto;">includes how such social media network will respond and address the reports of incidents of hateful conduct on their platform.</span> </p><p><span class="templateunderlined" style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:auto;"><span id="(4)"></span>4. Nothing in this section shall be construed (a) as an obligation imposed on a social media network that adversely affects the rights or freedoms of any persons, such as exercising the right of free speech pursuant to the first amendment to the United States Constitution, or (b) to add to or increase liability of a social media network for anything other than the failure to provide a mechanism for a user to report to the social media network any incidents of hateful conduct on their platform and to receive a response on such report.</span> </p><p><span class="templateunderlined" style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:auto;"><span id="(5)"></span>5. Any social media platform that knowingly fails to comply with the requirements of this section shall be assessed a civil penalty for such violation by the attorney general not to exceed one thousand dollars. Each day such offense shall continue shall constitute a separate additional violation. In determination of any such violation, the attorney general shall be authorized to take proof and make a determination of the relevant facts and to issue subpoenas in accordance with the civil practice law and rules.</span> </p><p>§ 2. 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