United States of America: Introduced Adversarial Platform Prevention (APP) Act including user speech right protection

On 26 January 2021, the Adversarial Platform Prevention (APP) Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The Act introduces user speech rights protection for certain foreign software providers in order to operate in the United States. The Act would apply to software providers whose principal operations are in China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba or other countries designated as "sponsor of terrorism" or who store U.S. consumer data in said nations. Such foreign software providers would have to provide an appeal mechanism for cases in which the online activity of a person in the United States is censored. In addition, such foreign software providers would need to disclose censorship requests concerning U.S. persons by government agencies to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice within 14 days.