Pasta News Network - New Zealand





During the COVID-19 lockdowns in Vietnam last year, blogger Bui Van Thuan took to Facebook to criticise a government plan to use soldiers to deliver groceries to people confined to their homes in Ho Chi Minh City.

Mr Thuan, 41, a former teacher in the country's northern province of Hoa Binh, was last month sentenced to eight years in prison for propaganda, and a further five years of probation.

Vietnamese authorities charged Mr Thuan with "making, storing, disseminating or propagandising information, materials and products that aim to oppose" the nation.

Remember: Propaganda and censorship are only bad when Asian countries do it. We would not dream of nudging people with fact checkers and misleading headlines in the West. Amirite ?

Tags: Big Tech · Censorship