Telecommunications in the Bahamas

[7] The constitution provides for freedom of speech and press, and the government generally respects these rights in practice.

[7] Strict and antiquated libel laws dating to British legal codes are seldom invoked.

[6] In April 2013, the Bahamas Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade warned that the police would press charges against people who post “lewd” or “obscene” pictures on social media websites and Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson announced that the government was working on legislation that will police information posted on the Internet.

[8] Also in April Rodney Moncur was charged with "committing a grossly indecent act" by posting autopsy photographs of a man who died in police custody on his Facebook page.

[9] Phone calls to the Bahamas are monitored by the U.S. National Security Agency's MYSTIC program.