New California Social Media Law AB-587

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@Leo does this apply to TWiT and in particular to your various services such as these forums and the IRC and Discord?

Big Tech must prove content moderation works or pay $15K daily fines in...

I read the bill text and it doesn’t seem to have minimum size limits, which is strange to me.

(d) “Social media company” means a person or entity that owns or operates one or more social media platforms.
(e) “Social media platform” means a public or semipublic internet-based service or application that has users in California and that meets both of the following criteria:
(1) (A) A substantial function of the service or application is to connect users in order to allow users to interact socially with each other within the service or application.
(B) A service or application that provides email or direct messaging services shall not be considered to meet this criterion on the basis of that function alone.
(2) The service or application allows users to do all of the following:
(A) Construct a public or semipublic profile for purposes of signing into and using the service or application.
(B) Populate a list of other users with whom an individual shares a social connection within the system.
(C) Create or post content viewable by other users, including, but not limited to, on message boards, in chat rooms, or through a landing page or main feed that presents the user with content generated by other users.