Internet censorship is getting tighter in Vietnam. In recent days, student and young people have complained that local authorities have partially or wholly blocked access to sites like Facebook, the BBC Vietnamese service and Vietnamese media based abroad. Many websites writing about democracy, freedom, justice and peace cannot be opened, Hanoi Catholics told AsiaNews. Dorothy Chou, a policy analyst at Google, recently looked at the Vietnamese government’s new internet regulations. She found that Vietnamese authorities now have the means to block access to websites, as well as to track user activities.
In Ho Chi Minh City, people told AsiaNews that “local authorities are blocking all radical sites This has pushed cybercafés to install programmes with violent games. Children and young people end up spending time and money on them. They live in a virtual world and have no relations with their families and communities. One cybercafé manager in the capital said that since people cannot open sites that discuss democracy, freedom, justice and peace, to make money I had to install violent and deceitful games.
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