Texas § BC.323.002 - SOFTWARE OR SERVICES THAT RESTRICT ACCESS TO CERTAIN INTERNET MATERIAL
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§ BC.323.002. SOFTWARE OR SERVICES THAT RESTRICT ACCESS TO CERTAIN INTERNET MATERIAL
SOFTWARE OR SERVICES THAT RESTRICT ACCESS TO CERTAIN INTERNET MATERIAL. (a) This section does not apply to: (1) the Department of Information Resources, in the department's capacity as the telecommunications provider for this state; or (2) an institution of higher education that provides interactive computer service. (b) A person who charges a fee to provide an interactive computer service shall provide free of charge to each subscriber of the service in this state a link leading to fully functional shareware, freeware, or a demonstration version of software or to a service that, for at least one operating system, enables the subscriber to automatically block or screen material on the Internet. (c) A person who charges a fee to provide an interactive computer service is in compliance with this section if the person places, on the person's first page of world wide web text information accessible to a subscriber, a link leading to the software or service described by Subsection (b). The identity of the link or other on-screen depiction of the link must appear set out from surrounding written or graphical material so as to be conspicuous. (d) A person who provides a link that complies with this section is not liable to a subscriber for any temporary inoperability of the link or for the effectiveness of the software or service to which the person links. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278 ), Sec. 2.01, eff. April 1, 2009.
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Section BC.323.002 ("SOFTWARE OR SERVICES THAT RESTRICT ACCESS TO CERTAIN INTERNET MATERIAL") is part of the The Texas Constitution, the codified statutory law of Texas. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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