Several cases of web content blocking have been reported in recent years:
- In July 2017, the websites of media outlets Sudan Tribune and Radio Tamazuj and the independent blogs Nyamilepedia and Paanluel Wel were reportedly blocked. One year and six months later, they were still blocked.
- In late June 2020, Sudan's Post announced on its website that access to its content had been blocked by the government.
- In August 2021, it was reported that Facebook and WhatsApp were restricted before planned protests.

It is reported that South Sudan has Internet shutdowns. According to the V-dem dataset, for the variable "v2smgovshut_osp" South Sudan showed a 1.189 out of 4, indicating the government shut down domestic access to the Internet numerous times in 2021.

South Sudan does not have a safe harbour regime in place for intermediaries for copyright infringement.

South Sudan does not have a safe harbour regime in place for intermediaries for any activity other than copyright infringement.

Section 6 of the Cybercrimes and Computer Misuse Provisional Order imposes an obligation on service providers to store for 180 days information relating to communications, including personal data and traffic data of subscribers. A service provider is defined as a public or private entity that provides to users of its services the means to communicate by use of a computer system, and any other entity that processes or stores computer data on behalf of that entity or its users (Section 5).

South Sudan has not joined any agreement with binding commitments to open transfers of data across borders. However, South Sudan is a member of the East African Community EAC since 2016 and is an observer to COMESA.

South Sudan does not have a comprehensive regime of data protection in place.

It is reported that there are some restrictions for obtaining a telecom license: there are conditions that differ for foreign-controlled operators, there is a legal limit on the number of licences, a minimum capital requirement to obtain a licence, and there are other licensing criteria. However, such restrictions have not been identified in the regulatory texts. The general regime for licensing in the telecom sector can be found in Chapter V of the National Telecommunication Act.

South Sudan is not part of the WTO and therefore has not attached the WTO Telecom Reference Paper to its schedule of commitments.

Section 7 of the National Telecommunication Act, provides the establishment of the National Communication Authority. This entity is answerable to the President of the Republic and it is reported that is not autonomous in its decision-making process.

According to Section 323 of the Companies Act, 2012, small-size private companies shall be the domain of South Sudanese nationals only and medium and large-size private companies shall be open to non-South Sudanese investors on the condition that financially able South Sudanese shall have not less than 31% shareholding in such companies. This applies to all companies, including the telecom sector.

It is reported that the state-owned company Digitel Telecommunications was launched in 2021. The information about the shares owned by the government is not available online.

It is reported that in South Sudan both functional and accounting separations for operators with significant market power are not required by law nor practiced in the telecommunications market.

There is no law or regulation in South Sudan for protection of trade secrets, however there is a bill on this issue since 2013.

South Sudan is not a signatory of the WIPO Treaty on Copyright.