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CThomas · Joined: 21 Oct 2009 Posts: 380 Location: HCMC, Vietnam

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-354181

This isn't a "vetted" story and I can't find any mainstream commentary. Can anyone in Vietnam comment?

Tanker · Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 72

Jerullan · Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 19

Yes, FB is blocked now, in Vietnam.

What are they afraid of, I don't know.

Green Acres · Joined: 06 May 2009 Posts: 260

That can't be true? If it is, well....fuel to the fire. It would show the powers at be are much more paranoid about potential power of the masses in many different ways. If you want to learn more, then search out web sites that are mostly banned in VN by southern elements, most notably the deposed rulers of the South and many former citizens who are not allowed to return to their homeland. There are many of them, and you will know that you have found one when you see the Southern flag (red horizontal addidas strips on a yellow background) on the page.

sg9015 · Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 69 Location: Saigon

It did for a day it would seem. I couldn't access it at my work's ISP but I could at home. I can access it from both sites now.

It was on an officially circulated list of banned ISP's. When I say official, it was in Vietnamese and it was passed to me by the IT guy at work.

No idea why it was banned and why it now seems to be back up. If I wanted to go to a country where they have these silly restrictions, I would have gone to China. I hope it was a one off.

CThomas · Joined: 21 Oct 2009 Posts: 380 Location: HCMC, Vietnam

Well, that' interesting. Down one day and up the next. Would like to hear more reports and figure out what's happening....

About the south and the flag, a lot of my Vietnamese students here (I teach ESL here in Texas, where Vietnamese is the 3rd most spoken language, incidentally) have talked about that flag. The yellow flag, they call it. It's funny: all of our students here are from the southern Vietnam and they are sure to correct any reference to SaiGon when people refer to the city as HCMC. It sure puts the feud between southern and northern California to shame when one considers the implications :S

inky · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 283 Location: Hanoi

It didn't happen.

TimkinMS · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 86

^ Apples and Oranges.

The FB block is just the tip of the iceberg. This censorship goes back long before the civil conflict.

sg9015 · Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 69 Location: Saigon

cutiepy126 · Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 17

Hi, I've noticed that facebook access has been off and on as well. Like for today for instance, I am unable to access facebook but I dont know what the reason exactly is.

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