{"id":2525,"date":"2016-06-02T10:53:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2021-07-15T03:44:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T10:44:24","slug":"vietnams-temporary-facebook-ban-forced-vietnamese-use-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/vietnams-temporary-facebook-ban-forced-vietnamese-use-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam&#8217;s Temporary Facebook Ban Forced Vietnamese to Use Privacy Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam enforced a Facebook ban for a week last month. Censorship is a tool most often used by those that understand it least. Fighting against censorship forces one to come to grips with long and short term impacts of restricting free speech for perceived temporary gains. Reports on Twitter and other unblocked social media indicated that Facebook access was restricted during American President Obama\u2019s visit to Vietnam. The stated reason for blocking Facebook during the visit of an American president was to prevent potential social unrest.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Enforce a Facebook Ban?<\/h2>\n<p>While an American President visiting a communist country might not be that big of a deal for our social media anymore, it clearly still is big news in a communist country. Many Vietnamese grew up under the impression that Americans were white devils and that they had driven them off specifically so that they would never return \u2013 yet there Obama was. The Eastern reaction to seemingly normal Western things is something to watch as the world enters a dipolar power structure. In the Western world, the biggest takeaway from Obama\u2019s visit in Vietnam was an iconic picture of Obama and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain eating in a crowded pho restaurant where nobody seems to know who they are. Maybe because Facebook was blocked?<\/p>\n<h2>Censorship Increases Use of Tor and VPNs<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tor-vietnam-facebook-ban.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2526 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tor-vietnam-facebook-ban-300x190.png\" alt=\"tor vietnam facebook ban\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tor-vietnam-facebook-ban-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tor-vietnam-facebook-ban-768x486.png 768w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tor-vietnam-facebook-ban-1024x648.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tor-vietnam-facebook-ban-474x300.png 474w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tor-vietnam-facebook-ban.png 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Politically motivated banning of communication channels, even if temporary, has a lasting effect on the affected populace. Facebook itself runs a Tor mirror site, and already some Vietnamese use it. After the Vietnamese Facebook ban started on May 16th, the number of Tor users connecting from Vietnam increased by nearly 10%. Nearly a thousand tech-savvy Vietnamese were able to easily bypass Vietnam\u2019s temporary ban on Facebook. What\u2019s more, they indubitably learned about privacy, censorship, and man\u2019s eternal yearn for freedom through the best teacher ever \u2013 experience.<\/p>\n<p>Even without looking at concrete numbers, I am comfortable saying that many more Vietnamese likely accessed Facebook through VPN services. Maybe, this was the last straw that caused some Vietnamese to stop using Facebook altogether, and delete their profile; though, nothing online ever really gets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/france-really-wants-google-censor-right-to-be-forgotten-search-results-worldwide\/\">forgotten<\/a>. Every time a government blocks something \u2013 they indirectly teach their citizens how to legally surpass these blocks. Time and time again \u2013 all around the world, attempts to squelch the power of the internet have been met with strong grassroots opposition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/privacy-alienable-human-right\/\">Privacy<\/a> has always been man\u2019s first defense against predatory governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam enforced a Facebook ban for a week last month. Censorship is a tool most often used by those that understand it least. Fighting against censorship forces one to come to grips with long and short term impacts of restricting free speech for perceived temporary gains. Reports on Twitter and other unblocked social media indicated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/vietnams-temporary-facebook-ban-forced-vietnamese-use-options\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vietnam&#8217;s Temporary Facebook Ban Forced Vietnamese to Use Privacy Software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1945,1,130,1940],"tags":[104,132,131],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-news","category-governments","category-social-media","tag-facebook","tag-tor","tag-vietnam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vietnam&#039;s Temporary Facebook Ban Forced Vietnamese to Use Privacy Software<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vietnam enforced a Facebook ban for a week last month. 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