New Crackdown on Internet Use
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Vietnam is stepping up its campaign against “bad and poisonous information on the Internet,” state media reported, in the wake of a recent string of dissidents who used the Web to criticize the government.
Since an April 23 meeting that was led by Deputy Premier Pham Gia Khiem, three ministries -- Culture and Information, Public Security, and Post and Telecommunications -- have been ordered to regularly monitor online information and to strictly punish those who abuse the Internet, the Communist Party newspaper People reported.
The order also asked the Ministry of Culture and Information to carefully screen editors of online publications.
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