Vietnam
Country Profile: Vietnam
Background
Now a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is attempting simultaneously to promote the development of information communications technology (ICT) and e-commerce while struggling to limit access to content that might destabilize the communist state and...
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Afghanistan, Arrests and legal action, Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Circumvention, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Copyright, Cuba, Elections, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, India, Indonesia, IP blocking, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latin America, Lebanon, Legislation, Mexico, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Nigeria, ONI, Pakistan, Political filtering, Rwanda, Social filtering, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Take-down, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, United States/Canada, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen
ONI Blog: Vietnam's New Green Dam?
Vietnam is continuing its steep fall down a slippery slope of Internet censorship and filtration and is raising more concerns over its new cyber-technology implementation.
Internet censorship is nothing new to Vietnam, yet its policies have remained very much out...
- Posted on 08/Jun/2010; tagged in Asia, Filtering tech and software, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Surveillance, Vietnam
ONI Blog: Is Vietnam Blocking Facebook?
According to an AP report, access to Facebook in Vietnam has been intermittent over the past week, with many users fearing a government block.
Facebook has over 1 million users in Vietnam, a considerable amount in a country with 22 million...
ONI Blog: ONI Releases Reports on Filtering in Asia, China
New research from the OpenNet Initiative reveals accelerating restrictions on Internet content as Asian governments shift to next generation controls. These new techniques go beyond blocking access to websites and are more informal and fluid, implemented at edges of the network, and...
- Posted on 16/Jun/2009; tagged in Asia, Bangladesh, Burma, China, Conflict and security filtering, India, Indonesia, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Non-filtering content restrictions, North Korea, ONI, Political filtering, Publications, Singapore, Social filtering, South Korea, Surveillance, Thailand, Vietnam, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Vietnam: Google, Yahoo! sought to regulate blogosphere
According to AFP news reports, Vietnam’s government wants to enlist Google and Yahoo! to help “regulate” the country’s blogging scene in an effort to stop “incorrect information” from being published online.
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of activity in...
- Posted on 04/Dec/2008; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Asia, Filtering tech and software, ONI, Political filtering, Vietnam
ONI Blog: The Boston Globe: Vietnam's new dissidents thrive via Internet
Matt Steinglass of The Boston Globe sees blogs and Internet chats as facilitating the political activities of dissidents in Vietnam and fueling the push for democracy. See full story.
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ONI Blog: Vietnam: Internet repression creates climate of fear
"A new report released [Oct. 22, 2006] by Amnesty International reveals a climate of fear in Viet Nam, with people afraid to post information online and Internet café owners forced to inform on their customers." See AI press release and...
ONI Blog: Internet Filtering in Vietnam
ONI has released today a report that finds an increase in Internet censorship in Vietnam.
Drawing from technical, legal, and political sources, ONI’s research finds that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is focusing its filtering on sites considered threatening to its...
