Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 91A — Promoting a Safe Internet for Children
§ 6555. Definitions
Statutory text
In this chapter:
Commission
The term “Commission” means the Federal Trade Commission.
Internet
The term “Internet” means collectively the myriad of computer and telecommunications facilities, including equipment and operating software, which comprise the interconnected world-wide network of networks that employ the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or any predecessor successor 1 protocols to such protocol, to communicate information of all kinds by wire or radio.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be preceded by “or”.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act
Pub. L. 110–385 title II § 216 · 122 Stat. 4096
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 6555
(Pub. L. 110–385, title II, § 216, Oct. 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 4104.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 110–385, title II, § 216, Oct. 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 4104.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 216. DEFINITIONS. In this title: (1) Commission.— The term “Commission” means the Federal Trade Commission. (2) Internet.— The term “Internet” means collectively the myriad of computer and telecommunications facilities, including equipment and operating software, which comprise the interconnected world-wide network of networks that employ the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or any predecessor successor protocols to such protocol, to communicate information of all kinds by wire or radio.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title II of Pub. L. 110–385, , 122 Stat. 4102, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of title II to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6551 of this title and Tables.