The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“The term ``Commission'' means the Federal Trade Commission.”
The Act uses Commission throughout section 3 to mean the Federal Trade Commission, and this paragraph is where that is set.
What the document actually says
“The term ``Commission'' means the Federal Trade Commission.”
That sentence, in plain words
The word Commission means the FTC.
What this is about
The FTC is the Federal Trade Commission. It is the agency that enforces part 3.
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The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“The terms ``consent'', ``digital forgery'', ``identifiable individual'', ``intimate visual depiction'', and ``minor'' have the meaning given such terms in section 223(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 223), as added by section 2.”
The Act takes five terms from the subsection section 2 inserts into the Communications Act of 1934. The paragraph's own heading names four of them, and the text of the paragraph carries a fifth, minor, that the heading does not.
What the document actually says
“The terms ``consent'', ``digital forgery'', ``identifiable individual'', ``intimate visual depiction'', and ``minor'' have the meaning given such terms in section 223(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 223), as added by section 2.”
That sentence, in plain words
Five words used here get their meaning from part 2.
What this is about
Part 2 wrote them into the old 1934 law. This law uses those same meanings. The heading over this bit lists only four of the five.
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The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“The term ``covered platform'' means a website, online service, online application, or mobile application-- (i) that serves the public; and (ii)(I) that primarily provides a forum for user-generated content, including messages, videos, images, games, and audio files; or (II) for which it is in the regular course of trade or business of the website, online service, online application, or mobile application to publish, curate, host, or make available content of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions.”
The term that carries the duties in section 3. A covered platform is a website, online service, online application or mobile application that serves the public and that either primarily provides a forum for user generated content, or publishes, curates, hosts or makes available nonconsensual intimate visual depictions in the regular course of its trade or business.
What the document actually says
“The term ``covered platform'' means a website, online service, online application, or mobile application-- (i) that serves the public; and (ii)(I) that primarily provides a forum for user-generated content, including messages, videos, images, games, and audio files; or (II) for which it is in the regular course of trade or business of the website, online service, online application, or mobile application to publish, curate, host, or make available content of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions.”
That sentence, in plain words
A covered site is one open to the public. Users must post most of what is on it. Or the site must deal in these images as its trade.
What this is about
User posts can be words, video, images, games, or sound. A site of either kind is covered.
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The document says “shall not”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“The term ``covered platform'' shall not include the following: (i) A provider of broadband internet access service (as described in section 8.1(b) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or successor regulation). (ii) Electronic mail.”
Two of the three things the term does not reach. A provider of broadband internet access service, as that service is described in section 8.1(b) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or a successor regulation, is excluded, and so is electronic mail. That regulation is cited, not indexed here.
What the document actually says
“The term ``covered platform'' shall not include the following: (i) A provider of broadband internet access service (as described in section 8.1(b) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or successor regulation). (ii) Electronic mail.”
That sentence, in plain words
The term does not cover firms that sell you internet. It does not cover email.
What this is about
The law points to a rule book to say what selling internet means. This site has not indexed that rule book.
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The document says “shall not”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“an online service, application, or website-- (I) that consists primarily of content that is not user generated but is preselected by the provider of such online service, application, or website; and (II) for which any chat, comment, or interactive functionality is incidental to, directly related to, or dependent on the provision of the content described in subclause (I).”
The third exclusion. A service, application or website is outside the term where it consists primarily of content preselected by its provider rather than generated by users, and where any chat, comment or interactive function is incidental to, directly related to or dependent on that content. The exclusion does not apply to a service that falls within subparagraph (A)(ii)(II).
What the document actually says
“an online service, application, or website-- (I) that consists primarily of content that is not user generated but is preselected by the provider of such online service, application, or website; and (II) for which any chat, comment, or interactive functionality is incidental to, directly related to, or dependent on the provision of the content described in subclause (I).”
That sentence, in plain words
A site that picks most of what it shows is not covered. Talk on it must hang off that content.
What this is about
The way out shuts in one case. It shuts if the site deals in these images as its trade.
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Each of the three definitions the section states, with the exclusions from the third recorded separately from the term itself.
Nothing in the section is left out.
Five of the terms the section defines are not defined here but carried over from the subsection section 2 inserts into the Communications Act of 1934, and two of those in turn point further out, to section 230 of that Act and to section 1309 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022. The exclusion for broadband internet access service points to section 8.1(b) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations. None of those is indexed here.
