Does monitoring the feeds of Vietnam’s 60 million Facebook users accomplish this goal? Stop asking distracting questions and just be happy that Internet users in Vietnam will finally be protected. Vietnamese authorities are instituting (or escalating) an online crackdown on free expression; they’re not starting a consumer safety revolution. It’s no coincidence that Vietnam ranks 175th out of 180 countries on Reporters Without Borders’s 2018 World Press Freedom Index. For the sake of the future of free speech in the West, we should pay attention to the steady erosion of free speech in Vietnam and be as chilled by it as we would by similar measures taken here.

Source: National Post January 07, 2019 13:30 UTC