{"id":68454,"date":"2024-12-23T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T04:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/23\/vietnam-identity-verification-internet-law-reactions-decree-147-censorship"},"modified":"2024-12-23T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T04:41:43","slug":"critics-decry-vietnams-draconian-new-internet-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68454","title":{"rendered":"Critics decry Vietnam\u2019s \u2018draconian\u2019 new internet law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users will need to verify their identities under new decree 147, prompting fears it will undermine expression and expose anonymous dissidents<\/p>\n<p>Social media users in Vietnam on platforms including Facebook and TikTok will need to verify their identities as part of strict new internet regulations that critics say further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/02\/vietnam-criticised-for-totalitarian-law-banning-online-criticism-of-government\">undermine freedom of expression<\/a> in the communist country.<\/p>\n<p>The law, which comes into force on Christmas Day, will compel tech companies operating in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/vietnam\">Vietnam<\/a> to store user data, provide it to authorities on request, and remove content the government regards as \u201cillegal\u201d within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/23\/vietnam-identity-verification-internet-law-reactions-decree-147-censorship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users will need to verify their identities under new decree 147, prompting fears it will undermine expression and expose anonymous dissidentsSocial media users in Vietnam on platforms including Facebook and TikTok will need to verify their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[457,53,351,86,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-speech","category-human-rights","category-internet","category-law","category-vietnam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68454","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68455,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68454\/revisions\/68455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}