Vietnam blogs may face vigorous censorship by government
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The number of Internet users is on the grow in Vietnam, and the government is worried that it may cause them trouble.
The communist regime of Vietnam are having a hard time keeping up with the explosion of internet blogging in the country.
Officials have their hands full trying to accomodate the flood of new users and has recently issued several decrees to try and curb blogging.
A campaign was initiated in August of 2008 wherein an edict was published, giving police broad authority to act against Vietnamese critics voicing their opinions online.
The edict includes anyone who opposes the “State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”, and those who countermine national security and social order.
An official gazette, published online by the Ministry of Information and Communications, revealed that the law also bans “obscenity and debauchery … and destroying national fine customs and traditions.”
Vietnam’s internet population has boomed since the country experienced an economic surge over the last few years.
In December 2008, the number of estimated Internet users stood at roughly 20.6 million people. Vietnam has a population of 86 million people, roughly the same number as Germany.
In 2000, a mere 200,000 people made use of the Internet, the growth in popularity has been staggering over the past nine years.
Online discussions about the country’s political future have flourished, since bloggers quickly saw the opportunity the world wide web offered to communicate their points of view to fellow-citizens.
A lot of the Vietnamese online population know that looking to blogs will give them information about the country and its politics which will not be found in any traditional media.
One of the country’s foremost bloggers, Nguyen Van Hai, (known as Dieu Cay) received a two year jail sentence last year for tax evasion, a case seen as punishment for his blogging. A newspaper journalist also received a two year jail sentence for running a series of articles that exposed corruption.
The Vietnamese government said that they’d approach search giants Google and Yahoo!, of which the vast majority of the country’s bloggers make use of as blogging platforms, in helping them policing Vietnamese Internet usage.
Whether the Vietnamese government will succeed in gaining control over the Internet successfully, remains to be seen. Unlike Chinese Internet usage, which has been under government control since its inception, Vietnamese users have always had freedom of access.
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