Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam turned off local servers

Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam turned off local servers

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Facebook‘s local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing local traffic to a crawl until it agreed to significantly increase the censorship of “anti-state” posts for local users, two sources at the company told Reuters on Tuesday.

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