United States of America: Introduced Oklahoma Act on Social Media Speech and Censorship (SB 1862)

The Bill on Social Media Speech and Censorship (SB 1862) is introduced in the Oklahoma Senate. The Bill introduces a private right of action by a user against a social media website if the website deletes or censors the user’s political or religious speech. Additionally, social media websites cannot use the policy on hate speech to justify such an action but can mitigate the damages if they restore from deletion or censorship the speech. Social media websites shall be immune by liability if they use an algorithm to censor instances of speech of pornographic nature, that call for immediate acts of violence, that are the result of an operational error or court order, that come from an inauthentic source or involve criminal conduct or that violates intellectual property regulation. Finally, the Attorney General can bring a civil cause for the reasons above.