Online safety & content laws in Seychelles (2026)

There is no DSA/OSA-style statute imposing duties of care, illegal-content removal obligations, or systemic-risk rules on online platforms; regulation is fragmented across media, telecoms, data-protection and cybercrime statutes rather than a single online-safety regime.

The Seychelles Media Commission, established under the Media Commission Act 2010, applies a Code of Conduct (made under s.13(2)(c)) that expressly governs 'publishers of online publications' alongside print and broadcast; remedies are limited to warnings, admonishment, public disapproval and required publication of findings.

The Broadcasting and Telecommunication Act 2000 lets the Minister prohibit, by written order, the broadcast of matter deemed 'objectionable' or against the 'national interest'; the Communications Act 2023 has since replaced parts of the 2000 Act's licensing/telecom framework. Authorities have generally not enforced the content-prohibition power.

The Data Protection Act 2023 (in force from late 2023, GDPR-aligned, enforced by the Information Commission) regulates processing of personal data including online, and the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act criminalises unauthorised access and computer-related offences — but neither imposes platform content-moderation duties.

Seychelles law contains no online age-assurance/age-verification mandate for platforms or adult content, and no intermediary-liability/safe-harbour framework defining when platforms are liable for user content.

Seychelles is rated 'Free' (80/100) in Freedom House's Freedom in the World 2025 with no documented systematic blocking of websites or social media; defamation was decriminalised in 2021, though some legacy journalistic self-censorship persists.