There should be a legal corridor to assure better operation of the blogs…We’ll manage them by randomly checking—we don’t need to control all the blogs…When we create a legal corridor, determining what is legal and what is a violation of Vietnamese law, the blog community will detect such things on its own and will let the government know of violations…
- Nguyen Tu Quang, director of Vietnam’s state-run Bach Khoa Internet Security Center, quoted in “Vietnamese to Police blogs”, Radio Free Asia, 9 December 2008.
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1 ThaiCrisis // Dec 10, 2008 at 7:29 pm
It’s nice to see that our vietnamese friends don’t loose their north… I mean their chinese model.
And more seriously, using the leverage of asian culture, they eventually understood that the best and most efficient way for censorship… was of course self-censorship.
This “corridor” is nothing but a reincarnation of the “social group”. You are inside. Or outside of it. And for the sake of the very survival of the group, the group will take care of each of its members…
It’s more efficient. And much cheaper.
Unstoppable.
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