{"id":25275,"date":"2020-12-01T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/01\/facebook-youtube-google-accused-complicity-vietnam-repression"},"modified":"2020-12-01T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T00:01:10","slug":"facebook-and-youtube-accused-of-complicity-in-vietnam-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25275","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and YouTube accused of complicity in Vietnam repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty report accuses sites of openly signalling they will bow to authoritarian regimes<\/p>\n<p>Facebook and YouTube are complicit in \u201ccensorship and repression on an industrial scale\u201d in Vietnam, according to a report by Amnesty International that accuses the platforms of openly signalling that they are willing to bow to the wishes of authoritarian regimes.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s executives have repeatedly promoted the platform as a bastion of \u201cfree expression\u201d, but in Vietnam, where there is little tolerance for dissent, the company complied with hundreds of requests to censor content earlier this year. This includes peaceful criticism of the state by activists, which is protected under international human rights law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/01\/facebook-youtube-google-accused-complicity-vietnam-repression\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty report accuses sites of openly signalling they will bow to authoritarian regimesFacebook and YouTube are complicit in \u201ccensorship and repression on an industrial scale\u201d in Vietnam, according to a report by Amnesty International that accuses the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1766,205,41,687,457,57,53,238,672,54,824,58,430,1281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-amnesty-international","category-asia-pacific","category-facebook","category-freedom-of-speech","category-google","category-human-rights","category-media","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-social-networking","category-technology","category-vietnam","category-youtube"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25276,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275\/revisions\/25276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}