Vietnam - Government wants to ban Internet users from discussing the news

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders regards a new law on blogs and social networks – announced on July 31st and due to take effect in september – as a gross violation of the right to inform and be informed. Known as Decree 72, the law restricts the use of blogs and social networks to “providing or exchanging personal information” and bans using them to share information from news sources. “The announced decree is nothing less than the harshest offensive against freedom of information since Prime (...)

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