SB10 Summary: Alabama Freedom of Online Speech Act

• Prohibits major interactive computer service providers (those with over 30 million U.S. users or 300 million worldwide users, $1 billion in annual revenue, and doing business in Alabama) from blocking, suspending, removing, obscuring, or altering user content based on the user's viewpoint or true statements of fact.

• Establishes civil liability of $100,000 per offense plus an additional $100,000 per day for continued violations, with affected users able to sue in any Alabama circuit court if they reside, are domiciled, or do business in the state.

• Exempts actions taken by service providers regarding expression that violates federal, state, or local law or solicits, facilitates, or incites unlawful acts.

• Does not prohibit service providers from offering users filtering options for explicit, indecent, violent, graphic, or profane content, and does not apply to expressions transmitted while users were outside Alabama.

• Takes effect on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.