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    {
      "id": "learn_r479_arizona_platform_restrictions_by_state_arizona_479_c1",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "Arizona: anchor",
      "summary": "Arizona's internet age-verification statute is in Title 18 (Information Technology) of the Arizona Revised Statutes, at A.R.S. 18-701 (added by Laws 2025, ch. 193, HB 2112).",
      "body": "Arizona's internet age-verification statute is in Title 18 (Information Technology) of the Arizona Revised Statutes, at A.R.S. 18-701 (added by Laws 2025, ch. 193, HB 2112).\n\nWhat Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“Title 18 - Information Technology”\n\nNote: Claude session research 2026-10-23 (web search + fetch of the official page); quote re-checked by the verify gate",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.azleg.gov/arsDetail/?title=18",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-23",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes)",
      "evidence_quote": "Title 18 - Information Technology",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "479-arizona-platform-restrictions-by-state",
      "subject": "Arizona",
      "topic": "anchor",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "AZ",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "any",
        "region": [
          "us-az"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r479_arizona_platform_restrictions_by_state_arizona_479_c2",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "Arizona: age verification duty",
      "summary": "A.R.S. 18-701(A) requires a commercial entity whose website has more than one-third sexual material harmful to minors to use reasonable age verification to confirm users are 18 or older; this is the Arizona statute an adult platform would cite for an Arizona restriction.",
      "body": "A.R.S. 18-701(A) requires a commercial entity whose website has more than one-third sexual material harmful to minors to use reasonable age verification to confirm users are 18 or older; this is the Arizona statute an adult platform would cite for an Arizona restriction.\n\nWhat Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“A. A commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on an internet website, including a social media platform, of which more than one-third is sexual material that is harmful to minors shall use reasonable age verification methods to verify that an individual who attempts to access the material is eighteen years of age or older.”\n\nNote: Claude session research 2026-10-23 (web search + fetch of the official page); quote re-checked by the verify gate",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/18/00701.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-23",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes)",
      "evidence_quote": "A. A commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on an internet website, including a social media platform, of which more than one-third is sexual material that is harmful to minors shall use reasonable age verification methods to verify that an individual who attempts to access the material is eighteen years of age or older.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "479-arizona-platform-restrictions-by-state",
      "subject": "Arizona",
      "topic": "age verification duty",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "AZ",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "any",
        "region": [
          "us-az"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r479_arizona_platform_restrictions_by_state_arizona_479_c3",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "Arizona: no data retention",
      "summary": "A.R.S. 18-701(C) bars the site or verifier from retaining identifying information or transmitting it to any government entity.",
      "body": "A.R.S. 18-701(C) bars the site or verifier from retaining identifying information or transmitting it to any government entity.\n\nWhat Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“C. A commercial entity or a third-party entity that performs the age verification that is required by this section may not retain any identifying information of the individual and may not cause or allow any identifying information of the individual to be directly or indirectly transmitted to any federal, state or local government entity.”\n\nNote: Claude session research 2026-10-23 (web search + fetch of the official page); quote re-checked by the verify gate",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/18/00701.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-23",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes)",
      "evidence_quote": "C. A commercial entity or a third-party entity that performs the age verification that is required by this section may not retain any identifying information of the individual and may not cause or allow any identifying information of the individual to be directly or indirectly transmitted to any federal, state or local government entity.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "479-arizona-platform-restrictions-by-state",
      "subject": "Arizona",
      "topic": "no data retention",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "AZ",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "any",
        "region": [
          "us-az"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r479_arizona_platform_restrictions_by_state_arizona_479_c4",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "Arizona: private right of action and penalties",
      "summary": "A.R.S. 18-701(F) gives parents and affected persons a right of action, with penalties up to $10,000 per day of non-compliance, $10,000 per retention instance, and up to $250,000 more if minors access the material.",
      "body": "A.R.S. 18-701(F) gives parents and affected persons a right of action, with penalties up to $10,000 per day of non-compliance, $10,000 per retention instance, and up to $250,000 more if minors access the material.\n\nWhat Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“2. For an additional amount of not more than $250,000 if, because of the entity's violation of the age verification requirements of this section, one or more minors accesses sexual material that is harmful to minors.”\n\nNote: Claude session research 2026-10-23 (web search + fetch of the official page); quote re-checked by the verify gate",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/18/00701.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-23",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes)",
      "evidence_quote": "2. For an additional amount of not more than $250,000 if, because of the entity's violation of the age verification requirements of this section, one or more minors accesses sexual material that is harmful to minors.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "479-arizona-platform-restrictions-by-state",
      "subject": "Arizona",
      "topic": "private right of action and penalties",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "AZ",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "any",
        "region": [
          "us-az"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r479_arizona_platform_restrictions_by_state_arizona_479_c5",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "Arizona: per-day penalty",
      "summary": "A.R.S. 18-701(F)(1)(a) sets a penalty of up to $10,000 per day that a site operates without the required age verification.",
      "body": "A.R.S. 18-701(F)(1)(a) sets a penalty of up to $10,000 per day that a site operates without the required age verification.\n\nWhat Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“(a) $10,000 per day that the entity operates an internet website in violation of the age verification requirements of this section.”\n\nNote: Claude session research 2026-10-23 (web search + fetch of the official page); quote re-checked by the verify gate",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/18/00701.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-23",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes)",
      "evidence_quote": "(a) $10,000 per day that the entity operates an internet website in violation of the age verification requirements of this section.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "479-arizona-platform-restrictions-by-state",
      "subject": "Arizona",
      "topic": "per-day penalty",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "AZ",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "any",
        "region": [
          "us-az"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r479_arizona_platform_restrictions_by_state_arizona_479_c6",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "Arizona: harmful to minors definition",
      "summary": "A.R.S. 18-701 defines \"sexual material that is harmful to minors\" using a minors-adjusted prurient-interest, patently-offensive and lacks-serious-value test.",
      "body": "A.R.S. 18-701 defines \"sexual material that is harmful to minors\" using a minors-adjusted prurient-interest, patently-offensive and lacks-serious-value test.\n\nWhat Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“7. \"Sexual material that is harmful to minors\" includes any material that: (a) The average person applying contemporary community standards would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest;”\n\nNote: Claude session research 2026-10-23 (web search + fetch of the official page); quote re-checked by the verify gate",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/18/00701.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-23",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes)",
      "evidence_quote": "7. \"Sexual material that is harmful to minors\" includes any material that: (a) The average person applying contemporary community standards would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest;",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "479-arizona-platform-restrictions-by-state",
      "subject": "Arizona",
      "topic": "harmful to minors definition",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "AZ",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "any",
        "region": [
          "us-az"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r479_arizona_platform_restrictions_by_state_arizona_479_c7",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "Arizona: news exemption",
      "summary": "A.R.S. 18-701(D) exempts bona fide news or public interest broadcasts, website video, reports or events.",
      "body": "A.R.S. 18-701(D) exempts bona fide news or public interest broadcasts, website video, reports or events.\n\nWhat Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes) actually says:\n\n“D. This section does not apply to a bona fide news or public interest broadcast, website video, report or event and may not be construed to affect the rights of a news-gathering organization.”\n\nNote: Claude session research 2026-10-23 (web search + fetch of the official page); quote re-checked by the verify gate",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/18/00701.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-23",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes)",
      "evidence_quote": "D. This section does not apply to a bona fide news or public interest broadcast, website video, report or event and may not be construed to affect the rights of a news-gathering organization.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "479-arizona-platform-restrictions-by-state",
      "subject": "Arizona",
      "topic": "news exemption",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "AZ",
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        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "any",
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        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
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        "explicitness": "any"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r479_arizona_platform_restrictions_by_state_arizona_479_c8",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "Arizona: enactment",
      "summary": "A.R.S. 18-701 was enacted by HB 2112, Laws 2025, Chapter 193, of the Fifty-seventh Legislature, First Regular Session.",
      "body": "A.R.S. 18-701 was enacted by HB 2112, Laws 2025, Chapter 193, of the Fifty-seventh Legislature, First Regular Session.\n\nWhat Arizona State Legislature (chaptered bill text) actually says:\n\n“Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 CHAPTER 193 HOUSE BILL 2112”\n\nNote: Claude session research 2026-10-23 (web search + fetch of the official page); quote re-checked by the verify gate",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1R/laws/0193.htm",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-23",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Arizona State Legislature (chaptered bill text)",
      "evidence_quote": "Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 CHAPTER 193 HOUSE BILL 2112",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "479-arizona-platform-restrictions-by-state",
      "subject": "Arizona",
      "topic": "enactment",
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      "tags": {
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}