A Study of Vietnam's Control over Online Anti-state Content / Dien Nguyen An Luong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luong, Dien Nguyen An, author.

Series:

Trends in Southeast Asia.

Trends in Southeast Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Censorship--Vietnam.

Censorship.

Cyberspace--Political aspects.

Cyberspace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.

Summary:

Over the past two decades, the fixation on anti-state content has shaped the way Vietnamese authorities deployed various censorship strategies to achieve the dual goals of creating a superficial openness while maintaining a tight grip on online discourses. These considerations dictated how several regulations on Internet controls were formulated and enforced. Vietnamese censors also selectively borrowed from China's online censorship playbook, a key tenet of which is the fear-based approach. The modus operandi for the authorities is to first harp on what they perceive as online foreign and domestic threats to Vietnam's social stability. Then those threats are exhaustively used to enforce tougher measures that are akin to those implemented in China. But unlike China, Vietnam has not afforded to ban Western social media platforms altogether. Realizing that they would be better off exploiting social media for their own gains, Vietnamese authorities have sought to co-opt and utilize it to curb anti-state content on the Internet. The lure of the Vietnamese market has also emboldened Facebook and Google's YouTube to consider it fit to acquiesce to state censorship demands. The crackdown on anti-state content and fear-based censorship are likely to continue shaping Vietnam's Internet controls, at least in the foreseeable future. The question is how both Internet users and the authorities will make the most of their unlikely - and fickle - alliance with social media to fulfil their agendas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

REGULATING CONTENT

PORNOGRAPHY AS PRETEXT

FOLLOW IN CHINA’S FOOTSTEPS

SOCIAL MEDIA-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: FROM ANIMOSITY TO ALLIANCE

PIVOT TO CO-OPTATION

THE BLOOM IS OFF THE ROSE, BUT FACEBOOK IS HERE TO STAY

THE ONLINE TUG-OF-WAR CONTINUES

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Nov 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: An, Dien Nguyen A Study of Vietnam's Control over Online Anti-State Content

ISBN:

9789815011449

9815011448

OCLC:

1302012929