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In 2020 and 2023, the United States Government tried to ban social media app TikTok. The DATA Act would have banned the selling of non-public personal data to third party buyers. [75] The RESTRICT Act would allow the United States Secretary of State to review any attempt of a tech company to "sabotage" the United States.
The government blocks Web sites that discuss the Dalai Lama, the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, the banned spiritual practice Falun Gong, as well as many general Internet sites. [81] The government requires Internet search firms and state media to censor issues deemed officially "sensitive," and blocks access to foreign websites ...
In 2021, Justice Minister David Lametti introduced Bill C-36 to remove online posts and content considered to be hateful and fine those espousing it for up to $50,000, stating that the internet has become the new public square and "that public square should be a safe space". [67]
Nearly one third of U.S. states — with a combined population of just over 104 millions people — are now unable to access PornHub, the world’s largest pornography site.
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the massively popular social media app or risk being banned ...
Detailed country by country information on Internet censorship and surveillance is provided in the Freedom on the Net reports from Freedom House, by the OpenNet Initiative, by Reporters Without Borders, and in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Lemon8 is a "lifestyle community" social media app powered by TikTok. The app could be banned alongside TikTok in the U.S. on Jan. 19.
As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [22] [23]