Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 98C.004
This is the official text of Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 98C.004, part of Texas’s Civil Practice and Remedies Code — sets procedural rules and available remedies for civil lawsuits.
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§ 98C.004. LIABILITY FOR ONLINE IMPERSONATION; EXCEPTION.
Official statutory text
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person is liable to another person injured by the person's online impersonation if:
(1) the person knowingly and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten the injured person used the online impersonation to create a false identity; and
(2) the online impersonation is, to a reasonable person, virtually indistinguishable from an actual person.
(b) A person is not liable for an online impersonation of which a purpose is satire or parody.
(1) the person knowingly and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten the injured person used the online impersonation to create a false identity; and
(2) the online impersonation is, to a reasonable person, virtually indistinguishable from an actual person.
(b) A person is not liable for an online impersonation of which a purpose is satire or parody.
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