{"id":1936,"date":"2018-09-28T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2018-09-28T00:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T00:00:02","slug":"vietnam-jails-another-facebook-user-for-comments-critical-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2018\/09\/28\/vietnam-jails-another-facebook-user-for-comments-critical-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam jails another Facebook user for comments critical of government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ArticleHeader_container\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader_upper-container\">\n<div class=\"foreground\">\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_container TwoColumnLayout_fluid-left\">\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_column TwoColumnLayout_left\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader_content-container\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader_channel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/news\/archive\/worldNews\">WORLD NEWS<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader_date\">SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 \/ 5:51 AM \/ UPDATED 14 HOURS AGO<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\">Vietnam jails another Facebook user for comments critical of government<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_column TwoColumnLayout_right\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lower-container\">\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_container inner TwoColumnLayout_fluid-left\">\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_column TwoColumnLayout_left\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader_content-container\">\n<div class=\"BylineBar_first-container ArticleHeader_byline-bar\">\n<div class=\"BylineBar_border-wrap\">\n<div class=\"BylineBar_last-container\">\n<p class=\"BylineBar_reading-time\">3 MIN READ<\/p>\n<div class=\"BylineBar_share-container\">\n<div class=\"SocialTool_container\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_column TwoColumnLayout_right\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_container StandardArticle_content TwoColumnLayout_fluid-left\">\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_column TwoColumnLayout_left\">\n<div class=\"StandardArticleBody_container\">\n<div class=\"StandardArticleBody_body\">\n<p>HANOI (Reuters) &#8211; A court in Vietnam has jailed a Facebook user for 2-1\/2 years over anti-government comments he posted on the social media website, police said on Thursday, as the Southeast Asian country continues its crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Despite sweeping economic reform and increasing openness to social change, Vietnam\u2019s ruling Communist Party retains tight media censorship and does not tolerate criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s decision comes days after Vietnam jailed another Facebook user for two years and three months on the same charges.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"DPSlot_container StandardArticleBody_dp-slot-inline\">\n<p>SPONSORED<\/p>\n<div id=\"dpslot_canvas_8172120_USKCN1M712S\" class=\"DPSlot_ad-container\">\n<div class=\"teads-inread sm-screen\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"teads-ui-components-adchoices\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"teads-ui-components-label\">ADVERTISING<\/div>\n<div id=\"teads1\" class=\"teads-player\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bui Manh Dong, 40, was convicted of \u201cabusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state\u201d at a trial in the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho, the Ministry of Public Security said on its official news website.<\/p>\n<p>He was accused of writing posts on his two Facebook accounts that \u201cdistorted the guidelines and policies of the party and the state, and defamed party and state leaders,\u201d the ministry said in the statement, citing the court indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Dong\u2019s activities \u201churt the prestige and leading role of the party and the state,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not trace contact details for Dong\u2019s lawyer to seek comment. Calls to the court went unanswered.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s presence in Vietnam has drawn increasing scrutiny after lawmakers approved a controversial cybersecurity law for global tech companies to store within the country \u201cimportant\u201d personal data on users and open offices there.<\/p>\n<p>The law, which takes effect on Jan. 1 next year, also requires social media companies to remove offending content within a day of receiving a request from the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook already has a direct channel for Vietnam\u2019s information ministry to seek the blocking or removal of accounts, content or posts deemed to violate the law.<\/p>\n<p>Many activists have complained about growing blocking of content this year.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Not all the ministry\u2019s requests are met, however, and acting information minister Nguyen Manh Hung this month proposed to set up a working group to improve communications between the government and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook did not immediately respond to a request from Reuters for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Attribution_container\">\n<div class=\"Attribution_attribution\">\n<p class=\"Attribution_content\">Reporting by James Pearson; Editing by Clarence Fernandez<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"StandardArticleBody_trustBadgeContainer\"><span class=\"StandardArticleBody_trustBadgeTitle\">Our Standards:<\/span><span class=\"trustBadgeUrl\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/en\/about-us\/trust-principles.html\">The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"DPSlot_container StandardArticleBody_dp-slot-inline\">\n<p>MORE FROM REUTERS<\/p>\n<div id=\"dpslot_connatix_783234_USKCN1M712S\" class=\"DPSlot_ad-container\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4735792\/us.reuters\/world\/article_6__container__\">\n<div class=\"connatix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WORLD NEWS SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 \/ 5:51 AM \/ UPDATED 14 HOURS AGO Vietnam jails another Facebook user for comments critical of government 3 MIN READ HANOI (Reuters) &#8211; A court in Vietnam has jailed a Facebook user for 2-1\/2 years over anti-government comments he posted on the social media website, police said on Thursday, as the Southeast Asian country&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2018\/09\/28\/vietnam-jails-another-facebook-user-for-comments-critical-of-government\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}