S. 474 would expand reporting requirements for interactive computer service providers, such as Internet service providers, social media companies, and municipal broadband providers, to the CyberTipline. The CyberTipline is the national reporting system for online child sexual exploitation. Under current law, those entities are required to report instances of child sexual exploitation and preserve each report for 90 days after submission. S. 474 would require providers to also report sex trafficking and prostitution of children through coercion to the CyberTipline and would lengthen the period to preserve those reports to one year after submission. Additionally, S. 474 would increase criminal penalties for providers who fail to make such a report.
