<story><title>Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic – sources</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-facebook-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-agreed-to-censor-posts-after-vietnam-slowed-traffic-sources-idUSKCN2232JX</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NhanH</author><text>Just tangentially related to the topic at hand, but I have a question to ask HN.
The main trans-Pacific cable connection between Vietnam and the US tends to be damaged several times a year (3&amp;lt;n&amp;lt;10 is my guess), which severely slow downs any connection to the outside of Vietnam during the time it is under maintenance. This always happens suspiciously during major political holiday (Independence day and the likes), so Vietnamese has just assumed that is a blatant censorship attempt. The wiki page has an outage section you can read: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Asia-America_Gateway&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Asia-America_Gateway&lt;/a&gt; , it doesn&amp;#x27;t list anything beyond 2018, but the situation is the same.&lt;p&gt;So my question is, how likely it is that the cable system are just really shitty? Or is the assumption of bald-faced censorship correct?</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic – sources</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-facebook-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-agreed-to-censor-posts-after-vietnam-slowed-traffic-sources-idUSKCN2232JX</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>piokoch</author><text>Kind of surprising. I can somehow understand that FB bends under pressure from Chinese government - huge population of a &amp;quot;superpower&amp;quot; country. But Vietnam? It looks as if FB was forced to squeeze every cent of their revenue.&lt;p&gt;FB might have just opened Pandora&amp;#x27;s box with all kind of restriction requests coming from all over the World.</text></comment>