Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic, say sources


FILE PHOTO An internet user browses through the Vietnamese governments new Facebook page in Hanoi Vietnam December 30 2015.  REUTERSKhamFile Photo

An Internet user browses through the Vietnamese government's Facebook page in Hanoi, Vietnam. In an emailed statement, Facebook confirmed it had reluctantly complied with the government’s request to ‘restrict access to content which it has deemed to be illegal’. — Reuters

HANOI: Facebook's local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing local traffic to a crawl until it agreed to significantly increase the censorship of "anti-state" posts for local users, two sources at the company told Reuters on April 21.

The restrictions, which the sources said were carried out by state-owned telecommunications companies, knocked the servers offline for around seven weeks, meaning the website became unusable at times.

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