Information on the internet about Vietnam's censorship:

On 27, August, 2009, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security sent out an official dispatch to prominent internet providers in Vietnam, ordering them to halt their users’ access to 8 websites, including facebook.com. And starting yesterday, two out of ten providers who received the note, namely FPT and Viettel, have started enacting the correspondence. The reason behind this order is explicitly stated in the dispatch: “For security reasons and to fight against propagative activities that oppose the Party and the government, Department of Professional Technology – Office of Security Administration – Ministry of Public Security suggests that the addressed companies to apply technical methods to block thoroughly these following websites.”

When visiting Vietnam, you don't really notice it's a communist country. The only thing you notice are the beautiful landscapes, the welcoming people, intricate and varied gastronomy, shopping opportunities, Unesco world heritage sites...

But when looking closer, the country's economy is pure capitalist. What matters the freedoms, there's a bit of censorship here and there. So, in the end there's nothing wrong at all. The bad thing is that Vietnam only uses the worst of communism AND capitalism. A communist country should have a good social system, but it totally lacks in Vietnam. Besides that, the freedoms are restricted, and the economy is the wild west, going crazy for foreign investments from Japan and South Korea.

Let's hope that one day, we'll all live in peace with nature and ourselves... Which won't be achieved by political parties, but only by every single human on earth.

Greetings from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam!


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