A person uses TikTok on their phone in Hanoi on Oct. 6, 2023.
ietnamese authorities announced last week the results of a monthslong investigation into TikTok, finding that the social media platform’s censorship processes failed to filter out content that violates Vietnamese laws.for how TikTok can step up its protection of children—such as removing all accounts of users below 13 years old and setting a time limit for users under 18.
The Vietnamese government’s emphasis on youth safety comes amid heightened efforts to protect children from exploitation on the internet—a problem that the media and government in Vietnam have become But seamlessly weaved into the advocacy for online child safety are also calls for greater censorship tools that can and almost certainly will be used to crack down on “anti-state” content—what experts say is a familiar pattern of the Vietnamese government conflating the tackling of legitimate cybersecurity concerns with stamping out political dissent.
But the way in which politically motivated censorship has been wrapped into the government’s concerns about user safety and privacy on social media platforms is a familiar tactic that goes back decades, observers say. Authorities have long harped on the problem of “toxic” online content, which in the 1990s and 2000s was more closely associated with pornograpy.
Social media companies, according to Giang, would “rather sacrifice whatever principles they might have in terms of freedom of speech operating in vastly growing market.”TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.
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