Editing Mass media in Liberia (section)

==Internet==
* [[Top-level domain]]: [[.lr]]<ref name=CIAWFB-Liberia-2014/>
* [[List of countries by number of Internet users|Internet users]]: 
** 317,717 users; 7.3% of the population, 158th in the world (2016 est.).<ref name=NIUCalc>Calculated using penetration rate and population data from [https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/rank.php "Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329060848/https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/rank.php |date=2017-03-29 }}, Population data, International Programs,  U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 26 June 2013.</ref><ref name=ITU-IndividualsUsingTheInternet>[http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/statistics/2013/Individuals_Internet_2000-2012.xls "Percentage of Individuals using the Internet 2000-2012"], International Telecommunication Union (Geneva), June 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.</ref>
** &nbsp;&nbsp;20,000 users, 194th in the world (2009).<ref name=CIAWFB-Liberia-2014/>
* [[List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions|Fixed broadband]]: 78 subscriptions, 193rd in the world; less than 0.05% of the population, 192nd in the world (2012).<ref name=NIUCalc/><ref name="FixedBroadbandITUDynamic2012">[http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ICTEYE/Reporting/DynamicReportWizard.aspx "Fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 2012"], Dynamic Report, ITU ITC EYE, [[International Telecommunication Union]]. Retrieved on 29 June 2013.</ref>
* [[List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions|Wireless broadband]]: Unknown (2012).<ref name="MobleBroadbandITUDynamic2012">[http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ICTEYE/Reporting/DynamicReportWizard.aspx "Active mobile-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 2012"], Dynamic Report, ITU ITC EYE, [[International Telecommunication Union]]. Retrieved on 29 June 2013.</ref>
* [[List of countries by number of Internet hosts|Internet hosts]]: 7 hosts, 228th in the world (2012).<ref name=CIAWFB-Liberia-2014/>
* [[IPv4]]: 13,312 addresses allocated, less than 0.05% of the world total, 3.4 addresses per 1000 people (2012).<ref>[http://www.countryipblocks.net/country-blocks/select-formats/ Select Formats] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513033601/http://www.countryipblocks.net/country-blocks/select-formats/ |date=2009-05-13 }}, Country IP Blocks. Accessed on 2 April 2012. Note: Site is said to be updated daily.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070613003851/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2119.html Population], [[The World Factbook]], [[United States]] [[Central Intelligence Agency]]. Accessed on 2 April 2012. Note: Data are mostly for 1 July 2012.</ref>

===Notable commercial websites===

While Liberia's commercial internet sector is still behind the majority of African countries there are still a few classifieds sites:{{citation needed |date=July 2014}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150801230805/http://liberiacommerce.com/ liberiacommerce.com]

===Internet censorship and surveillance===
There are no government restrictions on access to the Internet or reports that the government monitors [[e-mail]] or Internet [[chat rooms]].<ref name=USDOS-CRHRP-Libera>[https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm?year=2012&dlid=204136 "Liberia"], ''Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012'', Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 25 March 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.</ref>

The constitution provides for [[freedom of speech]] and [[freedom of the press|press]], and the government generally respects these rights in practice. [[Libel]] and [[national security]] laws place some limits on freedom of speech. Individuals can generally criticize the government publicly or privately without reprisal. Some journalists practice [[self-censorship]].
The constitution prohibits arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence, and the government generally respects these prohibitions in practice.<ref name=USDOS-CRHRP-Libera/>

[[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf|President Sirleaf]] endorsed and signed the [[World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers]]' [[Declaration of Table Mountain]] in [[Monrovia]] on 21 July 2012, committing to the core principles of a free press and calling for the repeal of the criminal [[defamation]] and [[insult]] laws regularly used against journalists.<ref name=USDOS-CRHRP-Libera/>