Vietnam announces big fines for social media ‘propaganda’

Vietnam will hand out fines of one hundred million dong ($four,740) to anyone criticizing the government on social media, below a new law announced this week, the most recent measure in a widening crackdown on dissent by using the us of a's communist rulers. Vietnam has many times drawn hearth for the cruel treatment and prolonged reformatory terms it has given to bloggers who criticized its one-party regime. Web penetration is soaring in a country of an estimated ninety million individuals, a third of whom use the web and about 20 million of whom have Fb money owed, a file published at a seminar on knowledge know-how in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis in September confirmed. Rights teams and international governments have come down hard on Vietnam over its draconian cyber rules, together with the US, which has advised Vietnam to fortify its human rights document to strengthen its case for more suitable change ties.