Vietnam Tells Facebook: Yield to Censors or We'll Shut You Down, Source Says
Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook in the country if it does not bow to government pressure to censor more local political content on its platform, a senior official at the U.S. social media giant told Reuters. Facebook complied with a government request in April to significantly increase its censorship of "anti-state" posts for local users, but Vietnam asked the company again in August to step up its restrictions of critical posts, the official said. "We made an agreement in April.
20 Nov 2020 ... Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook in the country if it does ... 2019 file photo shows an update information of Facebook application.