Day: September 18, 2017

Vietnam says Facebook commits to preventing offensive content – Reuters

September 20, 2017 / Journalism, Media and Social Media

“HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s government said Facebook has committed to work with it to prevent content that violates the country’s laws from appearing on its platform.In February, communist Vietnam complained about “toxic” anti-government and offensive content on Facebook and Google Inc.’s YouTube and pressured local companies to withdraw advertising until the social media firms found …

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Facebook Navigates an Internet Fractured by Governmental Controls – The New York Times

September 20, 2017 / Journalism, Media and Social Media

“On a muggy, late spring evening, Tuan Pham awoke to the police storming his house in Hanoi, Vietnam. They marched him to a police station and made their demand: Hand over your Facebook password. Mr. Tuan, a computer engineer, had recently written a poem on the social network called “Mother’s Lullaby,” which criticized how the …

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