Online safety & content laws in Suriname (2026)

Suriname has not enacted any DSA/OSA-style statute imposing duties on platforms, content-moderation obligations, age-verification, or intermediary-liability rules; the field is essentially unregulated as a dedicated regime.

The government generally does not restrict internet access; Suriname scores among the highest globally on internet freedom, sharing a top score (92) with countries such as Denmark, Finland and New Zealand.

The Telecommunicatie Autoriteit Suriname oversees licensing, spectrum, ISPs and competition (e.g., warning against unauthorized Starlink use), but has no mandate over online content moderation or platform safety.

There is no platform-specific liability framework; instead a harsh defamation law penalizes 'public expression of hate' toward the government with up to seven years' imprisonment, and critics of officials have been arrested, prompting some online self-censorship.

During the February 2023 riots authorities temporarily restricted access to certain websites to stop rioters sharing information, which produced general internet restrictions for all users — an ad hoc event, not a standing regime.

A 2017 draft electronic-transactions law (covering e-commerce, data protection and cybercrime, and including a controversial provision criminalizing insulting the president online) and a later personal-data-protection bill remain proposed/unenacted, so no statutory online regime is in force.