Industry watchers and open-internet advocates have voiced concern over market concentration among mobile service providers (see A4).
After surviving legal challenges, the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint concluded in April 2020.Both longstanding and newer issues include partisan manipulation of the electoral process, racism and inequality in the criminal justice system, flawed and discriminatory policies on immigration and asylum seekers, and growing disparities in wealth, economic opportunity, and political influence. However, in recent years its democratic institutions have suffered erosion. The people of the United States benefit from an open and competitive political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of other civil liberties. After the coverage period, the president also ordered US individuals and entities to halt transactions with TikTok and WeChat, potentially forcing the popular Chinese-owned social media platforms to sell or shutter US operations that have an estimated 50 million and 19 million users, respectively. While the internet in the United States remains vibrant, diverse, and largely free from state censorship, an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in May 2020 marked a shift away from the robust intermediary-liability protections that have long been synonymous with the US internet freedom model. The online sphere was flooded with politicized disinformation, inflammatory content, and dangerous misinformation related to COVID-19, the November 2020 elections, and protests, among other topics. Federal, state, and local authorities in many cases responded to nationwide protests for racial justice with intrusive surveillance, intimidation, and harassment, and there were some arrests for online activities. Internet freedom in the United States declined for the fourth consecutive year.
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