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Vietnam Requires Gov't Vetting of Business Websites

Posted by timothy on from the having-it-bad dept.

bhsurfer writes "Vietnam is now requiring government permission for businesses to set up websites. This article on yahoo give a brief rundown. The Ministry of Culture and Information came up with the rules, but hasn't given any info about the penalties for breaking them." The rules are apparently designed to combat the "increasing numbers of Vietnamese with access to news from outside sources." Update: 10/14 19:40 GMT by T :Sorry, that's 'Vietnam'.'

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  1. Vietname... by david.given · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...would make a really good name for an east Asian domain registrar.

  2. Not just Commiez... SPAIN too! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Informative
    The Reg just had an article this morning, about a similar law - called LSSI- in Spain.

    ISPs and sites are being held accountable for "illicit" content.

    Stop your red-baiting on the thread, you trolls! It's happening in "western, liberal-democracies", too!

    U.S. is mere motions away from this. If recent precedent carries over to Net space, "Justice" Department will exercise this authority without consultation from the legislature.

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    Never been known to fail..."
    1. Re:Not just Commiez... SPAIN too! by neocon · · Score: 3, Insightful

      U.S. is mere motions away from this. If recent precedent carries over to Net space, "Justice" Department will exercise this authority without consultation from the legislature.

      Care to back this claim up? Care to show us anything resembling this being proposed in the US?

      And, for the record, I wouldn't call a nation doing something like this a `liberal democracy', no matter what continent it's on. Would you?

    2. Re:Not just Commiez... SPAIN too! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Well, Ashcroft's statements are easy enough to find. This is related to the Child-Pr0n bugbear.

      It's all about the children

      More astonishing precedent is set by the confiscation of web servers at raisethefist.com .

      If I am to accept what I beleive to be your criteria, then it's pretty clear in the light of recent developments, that the U.S. is not a liberal democracy, and is quickly moving away from any reasonable description of a Republic.

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      "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
      Never been known to fail..."