SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect Speech Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS. 
Section 230(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 
(47 U.S.C. 230(c)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(c) PROTECTION FOR ‘GOOD SAMARITAN’ BLOCK-
ING AND SCREENING OF OFFENSIVE MATERIAL.— 
‘‘(1) TREATMENT
OF
PUBLISHER
OR
SPEAK-
ER.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—No provider or user of 
an interactive computer service shall be treated 
as the publisher or speaker of any information 
provided by another information content pro-
vider. 
‘‘(B) APPLICABILITY OF IMMUNITY.—Sub-
paragraph (A) shall not apply to any action by 
a provider or user of an interactive computer 
service to restrict access to or availability of 
material provided by another information con-
tent provider. Any immunity under this section 
for such action shall be provided solely by para-
graph (2). 
‘‘(C) NO LIABILITY FOR GOOD FAITH RE-
MOVAL.—For purposes of subparagraph (A), no 
provider or user of an interactive computer 
service shall be treated as the publisher or 
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speaker for any other information on the service 
provided by another information content pro-
vider solely on account of actions voluntarily 
taken in good faith to restrict access to or 
availability of specific material that the provider 
or user has an objectively reasonable belief vio-
lates the terms of service or use of the provider 
or user, as applicable. 
‘‘(2) CIVIL LIABILITY.—No provider or user of 
an interactive computer service shall be held liable 
on account of— 
‘‘(A) any action voluntarily taken in good 
faith to restrict access to or availability of ma-
terial that the provider or user has an objec-
tively reasonable belief is obscene, lewd, lasciv-
ious, filthy, excessively violent, promoting ter-
rorism or violent extremism, harassing, pro-
moting self-harm, or unlawful, whether or not 
such material is constitutionally protected; or 
‘‘(B) any action taken to enable or make 
available to information content providers or 
others the technical means to restrict access to 
material described in subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(3) LIABILITY FOR INFORMATION.—Being re-
sponsible in whole or in part for the creation or de-
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velopment of information includes instances in which 
a person or entity solicits, comments upon, funds, or 
affirmatively and substantively contributes to, modi-
fies, or alters information provided by another per-
son or entity. 
‘‘(4) GOOD FAITH.—In addition to the other 
applicable requirements, in order for a provider or 
user to avoid liability under paragraph (1)(C) or 
(2)(A), such provider or user shall meet the fol-
lowing requirements, if applicable: 
‘‘(A) Makes publicly available terms of 
service or use that state plainly and with par-
ticularity the criteria the interactive computer 
service employs in content-moderation practices 
of the service. 
‘‘(B) Restricts access to or availability of 
material consistent with those terms of service 
or use and with any official representations or 
disclosures regarding the internet service pro-
vider’s content-moderation practices. 
‘‘(C) Does not restrict access to or avail-
ability of material on deceptive grounds or 
apply terms of service or use to restrict access 
to or availability of material that is similarly 
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situated to material that the service inten-
tionally declines to restrict. 
‘‘(D) Supplies the provider of the material 
with timely notice describing with particularity 
the reasonable factual basis for the restriction 
of access and a meaningful opportunity to re-
spond, unless— 
‘‘(i) a law enforcement agency asks 
that such notice not be made; 
‘‘(ii) a service reasonably believes that 
the material relates to terrorism or other 
criminal activity; or 
‘‘(iii) such notice would risk imminent 
harm to others.’’. 
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