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But unlike China, Vietnamese have largely unfettered access to the Internet and post extensively on social media. If there were corpses piling up in the corrido
by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
But unlike China, Vietnamese have largely unfettered access to the Internet and post extensively on social media. If there were corpses piling up in the corridors of hospitals, we'd hear about it.
Of course, like the old Soviet joke says, just because there's freedom of speech doesn't mean there's freedom after speech, and you definitely can get in trouble for saying the wrong thing online. But again, unlike China, I haven't heard of Covid bloggers in Vietnam suddenly disappearing.
- dirtyid 6y agoChina has 100m active VPN users and magnitude more expats on the ground and foreign press present. Also millions of Chinese diaspora abroad getting news in the mainland. At least among my social circles, no one knows anyone whose been infected in China either among family or coworkers. There's more information flowing out of China in a relative sense. Vietnam also has Article 117 to arrest journalists for an anti-state reporting. They jail the second highest amount of reporters in Asia after China, 3X more per capita. That said covid19 isn't secret politburo proceedings, China and Vietnam are effectively transparent when it comes to massively public events.
- ilammy 6y ago> I haven't heard of Covid bloggers in Vietnam suddenly disappearing Might as well mean secret police working as intended ;)