During the Vietnam War, Vietnam was split into two parts: North and South. North Vietnam was a communist state and South Vietnam was lead by a non-communist pro-American Government. After the War, Vietnam again became one county. Today the government runs similar to a communistic county but it is called the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It has many rules and regulations that make accessing the Internet sites a lot harder than in our country.
In Vietnam, there are many restrictions to some websites on the Internet, mainly because their government is power hungry and doesn’t want their people posting negative things about them. The Internet is the best place for people to chat and protest against the government without getting caught. It is the Vietnamese government’s best interest to keep this information away from the people so no riots or protests occur and cause the government to be over thrown.
The Vietnamese government wanted to put an end to all the rebelling comments and articles; therefore they prohibited some major websites such as Facebook, Google, and other Internet companies. Their government has those websites censor and basically “patrol” the Internet to make sure none of the Vietnamese people are going against the laws. Another big website that is blocked is YouTube. It is restricted but not as strictly as in China. It’s blocked mainly because of the government issue but also they don’t want people watching to many videos and filling up the network. Also, there are many other sites that authorities have blocked. These include newspapers, foreign blogs, and human rights.
The government tracks the pages that are visited. They mainly track the sites that are written in Vietnamese and have to do with issues related t...
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...Very popular in Vietnam, they are strictly regulated. The café owners are required to install government-supplied monitoring software that traces the sites that are visited by each user. The café owners must also store information of the identification cards of each user, so that it can be officially inspected.
All of this is important to know because in America, we have excessive amounts of freedom and soon it could all be taken away. Every website and article can be taken from us that has to do with governmental power or religious speeches. Compared to other countries, The United States has many freedoms that should not be taken for granted. Overall, Vietnam’s Internet access is monitored but also there is some freedom. There is freedom to smaller social-media sites along with sites that don’t contradict the government’s power or the rights of the citizen’s.
Since the internet's inception in China, regulations have been in place in order to protect “state secrets”. The first such law was the “Safety and Protection Regulations for Computer Information Systems”1 put into place in 1994. This law opened the door for monitoring of Internet usage for criminal and other activities. In 1997, the “Computer Information Network and Internet Security, Protection and Management Regulations” strengthened the monitoring by requiring all Internet Service Providers in China to turn over monthly Internet traffic data to government’s Public Security Bureau. The new millennium ushe...
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The Internet, originally arising from the American military, has grown to a main source of communication for millions around the world and has helped in creating a global village. The Internet started gaining fast acceptance in the 1990's especially in North America. Countries such as China however, still have limited access and control over the contents on the internet allowed ...
There are over 2,405,518,376 internet users on a global scale. More than 50% of the world have a form of Internet censorship, and of those countries China, North Korea, Iran, and Vietnam heavily restrict its citizens. This recent topic has reached new heights in the US with the growing number of access to internet. More and more people are debating whether the internet should be censored. Internet censorship is the control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the internet. This would affect everyone and me. I specifically use the internet to read about controversial view and other information that gets ignored by the media or isn’t circulated anymore. Most of these sites would fall in the black list of censoring. A small percentage of users post conspicuous posts, graphic material, and infringing copyright links. Although inappropriate it shouldn’t demand internet censorship, because it goes against the individual rights of the people. Freedom of speech and press will be restricted by the government. To a point where people would be scared to express themselves, or spread information for they might be punished. Even if their opinion is erroneous and maleficent, it’s still that person’s opinion and he’s entitled to it. Same can be said for the common good everyone should be able to voice their opinions without censorship anywhere. Everyone should also have the access to any information on the internet. If anyone is offended by what is said on the internet, then they can remember to not visit the webpage next time and hold themselves accountable. This paper will examine the issue of internet censorship constituting a violation to the American people individual rights, common good, and the constitution.
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"The U.S government-Federal, State and Local- has a limited duty to monitor the internet for numerous reasons. They can violate constitutional rights and privacy. There can be serious miscommunication issues, and profiling issues.
First of all, freedom of speech in America is different from Vietnam on the internet. In Vietnam, people cannot upload something which has bad influence on another person, especially government even it is the truth. The reason is “Vietnam continued
...urity Numbers in order to participate in online communities. Anonymity is seen as one of the fundamentals that makes an ope internet such an important tool for democracy. People at the lowest of the social structure can voice their opinions to the same audience as someone of high social standing, in short it's the words that are more important than who they are on the internet. Internet censorship has played a large role in politics since the 2002 presidential election. South Korea has strict rules on what can and can't be said in regards to elections and when election campaigning can begin. Fish Notes the public figures for the number of deletion requests and investigations involving the censorship of the internet has increased over the last 10 years. In Fish's conclusion he tries to reconcile these conflict involving one of the most successful democracies in Asia
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