Tracker

Regulation by Country

Name: Reddit Regulation & Government Action by Country
Creator: Reddit Watch

How governments around the world have regulated, fined, blocked, or pressured Reddit — content-moderation laws, data-protection and age-verification rules, and enforcement actions, organized by jurisdiction.

39 of 39 measures

Government regulation and legal action against Reddit by country — sortable and filterable.
	Law / measure	Type	Enforcement
United Kingdom	UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018 (Age Appropriate Design Code, the Children's Code)	data-protection	fine	2026
United States	Nebraska Parental Rights in Social Media Act (Legislative Bill 383)	age-verification	compliance	2026
United States	South Carolina Age-Appropriate Code Design Act	data-protection	compliance	2026
United States	Ohio Social Media Parental Notification Act (House Bill 33 provisions)	age-verification	compliance	2026
Australia	High Court challenge to the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024	age-verification	other	2025
Australia	Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024	age-verification	compliance	2025
Netherlands	General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR / AVG)	data-protection	investigation	2025
New Zealand	Social Media (Age-Restricted Users) Bill	age-verification	—	2025
United Kingdom	Online Safety Act 2023 (Ofcom-enforced age-assurance duties)	age-verification	compliance	2025
United States	California Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (Senate Bill 976)	content-moderation	compliance	2025
United States	Mississippi Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act (House Bill 1126)	age-verification	compliance	2025
United States	TAKE IT DOWN Act	content-moderation	removal-order	2025
United States	Arkansas Social Media Safety Act (Act 689 / Senate Bill 396)	age-verification	compliance	2025
United States	Virginia Senate Bill 854 (social-media age-verification law)	age-verification	compliance	2025
United States	Florida HB 3 (2024 minor social-media access law)	age-verification	compliance	2025
Australia	Online Safety Act 2021 - Basic Online Safety Expectations transparency notices	content-moderation	compliance	2024
Canada	Online Harms Act (Bill C-63)	content-moderation	—	2024
European Union	Digital Services Act (DSA), Regulation (EU) 2022/2065	content-moderation	compliance	2024
Iran	National Information Network filtering (state internet-censorship regime)	content-moderation	block	2024
United States	Georgia Protecting Georgia's Children on Social Media Act (Senate Bill 351)	age-verification	compliance	2024
United States	FTC inquiry into AI data licensing (licensing of user content for AI training)	data-protection	investigation	2024
United States	SEC IPO registration-statement comment-letter review of Reddit	other	compliance	2024
United States	FTC 6(b) Social Media and Video Streaming Data Study ('A Look Behind the Screens')	data-protection	investigation	2024
United States	Tennessee Protecting Children from Social Media Act (House Bill 1891)	age-verification	compliance	2024
United States	Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)	age-verification	—	2024
United States	Texas SCOPE Act (Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act), House Bill 18	data-protection	compliance	2024
United States	Texas Attorney General investigation into Reddit (SCOPE Act and Texas Data Privacy and Security Act)	data-protection	investigation	2024
United States	Utah Minor Protection in Social Media Act (SB 194, replacing SB 152 and HB 311)	age-verification	block	2024
United States	California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (Assembly Bill 2273)	data-protection	compliance	2024
Russia	Russian 'failure to delete banned content' law / post-2022 war-censorship statutes	content-moderation	fine	2023
India	Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021	content-moderation	compliance	2021
India	Department of Telecommunications ISP blocking directives (under the IT Act framework)	content-moderation	block	2019
China	Great Firewall (Golden Shield) blocking under China's cyberspace-sovereignty framework	content-moderation	block	2018
Germany	Network Enforcement Act (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz / NetzDG)	content-moderation	compliance	2018
United States	FOSTA-SESTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act / Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act)	content-moderation	other	2018
Turkey	Internet Law No. 5651 / court-ordered content removals	content-moderation	removal-order	2016
Russia	Federal blacklist / Roskomnadzor order (drug-promotion content)	content-moderation	block	2015
Turkey	Internet Law No. 5651	content-moderation	block	2015
Indonesia	Internet Sehat dan Aman / 'Internet Positif' filtering (Kominfo)	content-moderation	block	2014