Trung Khoa Le had it all planned. A Facebook post earlier that day had given his followers a heads up that they were going to see something interesting cross their newsfeeds.
The journalist had arranged to meet with another dissident, a Vietnamese lawyer who once served time as a prisoner of conscience in their home country, in their exile in Berlin. Members of Vietnam's parliament attend a session on a cybersecurity law in Hanoi in June 2018. 423 out of 466 of these present voted for the law, which requires service providers such as Google and Facebook to store user data in Vietnam and remove critical posts within 24 hours. Photo: EPA-EFE/Vietnam News Agency
The lawyer said that the law would in theory give the state access to even the most intimate of online interactions.
It’s a prospect that Facebook can ill afford. With a fifth of the world’s population, China has enjoyed unprecedented success in controlling multinational tech companies’ access to a market that has come to define the success or failure of many a corporation. With its so-called Great Firewall, the Chinese government has cut off access to US-based platforms such as Google and Facebook, investing instead in domestic platforms such as Weibo.
By creating competition, [the government] is so much more likely to be able to get Facebook to do what they want it to do”
Digital privacy expert Ray Walsh
This article was written by EVIE BREESE AND PAUL MILLAR
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