Vietnam
The expansion of Internet use in the
country has become a cause for
concern for the government of
Vietnam, which on one hand aspires
to expand information and communication technologies for development purposes, and on the other, sees
the Internet as a source of instability.
The Vietnamese state has taken steps
to control Internet use through legal
and regulatory frameworks, and by
fi ltering content that it deems threatening to the regime, state unity, or national
security. With the rise of social networking and blogging as tools to express
dissent, the Internet has become a contested space in Vietnam: the government
attempts to rival social networking sites such as Facebook through the development of a state-run social networking site on the one hand, while patriotic
hackers launch cyber attacks on dissident Web sites on the other.
RESULTS AT A GLANCE
Filtering
No evidence
of Filtering
Suspected
Filtering
Selective
Filtering
Substantial
Filtering
Pervasive
Filtering
Political
•
Social
•
Confl ict and security
•
Internet tools
•
OTHER FACTORS
Low
Medium
High
Not Applicable
Transparency
•
Consistency
•