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Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views'

posted by cmn32480 on Friday January 05 2018, @09:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the story-is-what-we-say-it-is dept.

canopic jug writes:

Over at Techdirt, Glyn Moody writes about Vietnam's Internet monitoring unit called "Force 47". The unit is a large team, around 10,000 in number, tasked with combating prohibited viewpoints, inconvenient facts, and anything against policy through monitoring, complaints, and astroturfing.

Facebook this year removed 159 accounts at Vietnam's behest, while YouTube took down 4,500 videos, or 90 percent of what the government requested, according to VietnamNet news, which cited Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan last week. The National Assembly is debating a cybersecurity bill that would require technology companies to store certain data on servers in the country.

Related: Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @04:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @04:23PM (#618368)

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