Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 120.001 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Social media platform" means an Internet website or application that is open to the public, allows a user to create an account, and enables users to communicate with other users for the primary purpose of posting information, comments, messages, or images. The term does not include:(A) an Internet service provider as defined by Section 324.055;(C) an online service, application, or website:(i) that consists primarily of news, sports, entertainment, or other information or content that is not user generated but is preselected by the provider; and(ii) for which any chat, comments, or interactive functionality is incidental to, directly related to, or dependent on the provision of the content described by Subparagraph (i).(2) "User" means a person who posts, uploads, transmits, shares, or otherwise publishes or receives content through a social media platform. The term includes a person who has a social media platform account that the social media platform has disabled or locked.Tex. Bus. and Comm. Code § 120.001
Added by Acts 2021SP2, Texas Acts of the 87th Legislature - Second Special Session, ch. TBD,Sec. 2, eff. 12/2/2021.