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Critics decry Vietnam’s ‘draconian’ new internet law
(www.theguardian.com)
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Countries don't do this to oppress their people, they do it because they've seen the Internet used to influence right wing extremists by foreign actors.
Don't even try to reason with people here that governments should be responsible for blocking harmful agents to affect the population. Government control and communism are bad words here, it's obviously much better to be free to spread misinformation and foreign propaganda, and if you can't have such freedom, you're obviously being oppressed by the government. I wish my ""free"" country had done the same ~10 years ago when social media truly became mainstream, and maybe we wouldn't have suffered a coup d'état that was clearly in the best interests of other nations.
Do you think the government is only removing misinformation and foreign propaganda? I'm in Vietnam right now, the government plays propaganda on a loudspeaker daily. The history they portray over here is verifiably false and intentionally misleading.
It's almost like having a single party in control of everything is a bad idea...