Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Entry for December 02, 2008

This guy has no shame. But "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" (Upton Sinclair).

(Btw, đợt này tôi cũng bận nên sẽ không update blog thường xuyên. Sang 2009 có lẽ tôi sẽ chuyển sang blog khác.)

Vietnam seeks Google, Yahoo! help to control bloggers: reports

HANOI (AFP) — Communist Vietnam wants Internet giants Google and Yahoo! to help "regulate" the country's flourishing blogging scene, state media said Tuesday, and stop "incorrect information" being published online.

The government will announce new rules this month, stressing that weblogs should serve as personal online diaries, not as organs to disseminate opinions about politics, religion and society, senior officials were quoted as saying.
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The director of the state-run Bach Khoa Internet Security Centre, Nguyen Tu Quang, last month said under draft rules being debated, violators could face 12,000-dollar fines and up to 12 years jail.

"This is quite a strict punishment but perfectly suitable for those who intentionally release incorrect information about religion, the political system, state and government of Vietnam," Quang was quoted as saying.



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