Vietnam ‘mimic’ China for Internet Censorship

June 6, 2010

Internet News – Human rights activists began to worry that the new software will be made by the Vietnamese government can cause a strict censorship on the internet

In April, local officials issued new regulations that include the Internet kiosk and internet service provider in Hanoi, as if designed to act against violations of hacking and other services. But the rule is obscured, making it a software to observe the movements of Internet users.

Under the new rules, domain name servers need to install copies of Internet Services through the software provided by the state. Similarly quoted by AFP on Sunday (06/06/2010).

No one quite knows what software proficiency level in these owned by the Vietnamese government, but activists in the U.S. worry that can be used to prohibit the use of the Internet in a country that has seen information on the Internet and social networking as a danger.

“Now there are 25 million internet users of Vietnam, and the government feared that these people have a place relatively free of censorship in which they can exchange their views,” said Duy Hoang, a spokesman with the Viet Tan, a pro-democracy political parties are critical against the Vietnamese government.

“The government does not want the sources of independent information,” he said.

Local media reports say that the software was developed by the National University of Hanoi, and is expected to be installed in all of 4000 amounted to a cafe next to the year 2011.


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