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Vietnam Imposes New Blogging Restrictions

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the people-never-learn dept.

GMAW is one of many to mention that the Vietnam government has approved a new set of regulations aimed at bloggers. The new restrictions ban bloggers from discussing certain subjects that the government deems sensitive or inappropriate. Not only are the topics limited, but bloggers are being directed to only write about issues that directly impact their personal lives. "The rules, which were approved Dec. 18, attempt to rein in Vietnam's booming blogosphere. It has become an alternative source of news for many in the communist country, where the media is state-controlled. The new rules require Internet companies that provide blogging platforms to report to the government every six months and provide information about bloggers on request."

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  1. Communist? by matt4077 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Vietnam is communism in name only (not even that since it calls itself socialist). Since 1986 Vietnam is, like China today, just yet-another undemocratic country. Communism is mostly an economic concept, and the Vietnamese economy has largely shifted to a free market system.

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    1. Re:Communist? by HungWeiLo · · Score: 2, Informative

      It goes quite a long ways past just torture. According to this recent article, the US-backed South Korean regime murdered at least 100,000 leftist sympathizers and put them into newly-discovered mass graves.

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      There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
  2. What the Pho? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Informative

    The new restrictions ban bloggers from discussing certain subjects that the government deems sensitive or inappropriate. Not only are the topics limited, but bloggers are being directed to only write about issues that directly impact their personal lives.

    If I was a Vietnamese blogger, the new restrictions would directly impact my personal life.

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  3. Re:Didn't they choose Communism? by Clarious · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, the previous generation choosed communist, but it was the only way to gain independence back then. We have China (ROC) in the north, the French in the South. And the only force that can prevent us from being enslave one again is the communist.

    So at least we got a bed to sleep ;)

  4. Re:A lesson on Communism from Sirik Matak by gary_7vn · · Score: 2, Informative

    And that would be the same Democratic freedom fighter, Sirik Matak who, "On March 18, 1970, while Norodom Sihanouk was on a trip abroad in Beijing, China, Prince Sirik Matak assisted Prime Minister Lon Nol in organizing a vote of the National Assembly to depose Norodom Sihanouk as head of state. The measure passed easily in parliament and they declared a new government named the Khmer Republic." Wiki Thus opening the country (with the help of millions killed by B52 raids) to Pol Pot, who killed a couple of million more.

  5. Re:A lesson on Communism from Sirik Matak by schon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Communism killed more than 100 million people in the last century

    Capitalism has killed more than a million people in the past 4 years. What's your point, other than to create a straw man?