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Introduced June 10, 2025 by Craig A. Goldman · Last progress June 10, 2025
The bill increases transparency, appeal rights, and public accountability for online moderation — improving users' ability to understand and challenge restrictions — but does so at the cost of added compliance and reporting burdens that may raise prices, disadvantage smaller platforms, create privacy and safety tradeoffs, and expand FTC enforcement reach.
Most online users (consumers, students, middle-class families, young adults) will get clearer, more actionable information about account policies, why accounts are suspended or terminated, and advance notice of material AUP changes, improving predictability of platform moderation.
Users (including small businesses, nonprofits, and individual account-holders) will have formal appeal rights and pathways to challenge suspensions or restrictions, reducing wrongful deplatforming and improving recourse.
Researchers, journalists, regulators, and the public will gain machine-readable reporting and public disclosure of enforcement processes and government-originated alerts, increasing oversight, empirical analysis, and accountability of platform moderation.
All online service providers — especially small platforms and startups — will face significant new compliance, reporting, notice, and appeals costs that are likely to be passed to users through higher prices, reduced free features, or degraded services.
Smaller and nonprofit platforms may be disproportionately burdened by administrative requirements and deadlines, disadvantaging them versus large incumbents and reducing competition and consumer choice.
Advance‑notice and strict procedural requirements could delay the takedown of harmful or rapidly spreading content, potentially increasing safety risks to the public in some situations.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Requires platforms to publish clear acceptable use policies, give advance notice and appeal info before restricting accounts, publish annual enforcement data, and subject violations to FTC enforcement.
Requires online service providers to publish clear, accessible acceptable use policies that explain what behavior can get users suspended or banned, how enforcement works, and whether off-platform conduct matters. Providers must give advance written notice (with limited emergency exceptions) and explain appeals options before restricting accounts, publish yearly machine- and human-readable reports on enforcement activity, and face FTC enforcement for violations.