Vietnam’s top echelons have indicated that the task of controlling cyberspace has never been more crucial. But how to do so in a country that boasts 72 million social media users without alienating the growing cadres of Internet-savvy youths is a daunting question.
- Title: Placate the Young and Control Online Discourse: The Vietnamese
State’s Tightrope
Publish Date: April 14, 2021
Publisher: ISEAS – YUSOF ISHAK INSTITUTE
This landmark development was instrumental to youth-led online movements. But on the other side of the spectrum, the drafting process for Vietnam’s Cyber-Security Law was mooted as early as July 2016, just right on the heels of the Formosa protests.
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