                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIABILITY FOR DEFAMATORY MATERIAL ON THE INTERNET (§ 8.01-49.1)

A. No provider or user of an interactive computer service on the Internet shall
be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided to it by
another information content provider. No provider or user of an interactive
computer service shall be liable for (i) any action voluntarily taken by it in
good faith to restrict access to, or availability of, material that the provider
or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, excessively violent,
harassing, or intended to incite hatred on the basis of race, religious
conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or
ethnic or national origin, whether or not such material is constitutionally
protected, or (ii) any action taken to enable, or make available to information
content providers or others, the technical means to restrict access to
information provided by another information content provider.

B. As used in this section:
			&#8220;Disability&#8221; means a physical or mental impairment that
substantially limits one or more of a person&#8217;s major life activities.
			&#8220;Information content provider&#8221; means any person or entity that is
responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information
provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.
			&#8220;Interactive computer service&#8221; means any information service,
system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by
multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system
that provides access to the Internet and such systems operated or services
offered by libraries or educational institutions.
			&#8220;Internet&#8221; means the international computer network of
interoperable packet-switched data networks.

HISTORY: 2000, c. 930; 2020, cc. 746, 1171; 2024, cc. 266, 334.