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Brickbats

Brickbat: Evacuating from Vietnam

Charles Oliver | 11.27.2020 4:00 AM

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Facebook has already agreed to comply with a demand by the Vietnamese government to censor "anti-state" material. But the government wants the social media company to block even more material, and the company is balking at that demand. So the government is now threatening to ban Facebook if it doesn't comply with that demand. Facebook reportedly has revenues of almost $1 billion annually in Vietnam.

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  1. Adans smith   5 years ago

    What is this face book of which you speak?

    1. RabbiHarveyWeinstein   5 years ago

      Facebook Vietnam: Profits without Honor

      1. MatthewSlyfield   5 years ago

        What is this honor of which you speak?

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    2. Alex Huynh   5 years ago

      https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=102562248377493&id=102557028378015

    3. Alex Huynh   5 years ago

      https://dribbble.com/shots/14672285-Comparisites-Review-5000-bonuses

  2. Fist of Etiquette   5 years ago

    Facebook reportedly has revenues of almost $1 billion annually in Vietnam.

    How?

    1. RabbiHarveyWeinstein   5 years ago

      Nguyen likes his Facebook ads

      1. CE   5 years ago

        It’s a Nguyen-Nguyen situation.

        1. Ecoli   5 years ago

          I larfed.

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    2. Mr Rand   5 years ago

      Advertising. Clicks. Likes

  3. Jerryskids   5 years ago

    Damn, with a title like “Evacuating Vietnam” I was hoping this was a counter-argument to those who say it takes 20 years to pull your troops out of a country once you go in.

    1. Rat on a train   5 years ago

      We can’t remove the lockdowns until there are zero cases. We can’t remove troops until there are zero attacks. If it save one life …

      1. RabbiHarveyWeinstein   5 years ago

        All cops are bastards but Team America: World Police are heroes for fighting terrorists!

    2. CE   5 years ago

      It only takes 80 years if you win (see Japan, Germany, etc.). If you lose you’re out right away.

    3. Kreel Sarloo   5 years ago

      If you pull out to soon you leave her unsatisfied.

      1. Kreel Sarloo   5 years ago

        And now we have proof that Joe Biden is a caring lover because he will stay in Afghanistan until she’s had it good and hard

        Trump on the other hand is an callous brute.

        I’d kind of say that not only is Afghanistan unsatisfied, they’re actually just plain fed up, sick and tired and have probably had quite enough of all the western caring.

  4. Jerry B.   5 years ago

    So the Vietnamese government and the U.S. Congress are on the same page about Facebook censorship.

    Who’d a thunk?

    1. RabbiHarveyWeinstein   5 years ago

      How do those commies make such good coffee? I suspect it is the French influence during colonialism, a horrible period that provided nothing to the Vietnamese people.

      1. SQRLSY One   5 years ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak

        Civet poop coffee!!! THAT is how they do it!

        (I assume that the civets are paid a fair-coffee wage. I covet a silly civil civet wage. Can you say that really fast?).

    2. Mother's Lament   5 years ago

      Facebook is on the same page about Facebook censorship.

      Facebook was arbitrarily censoring posts years before governments got in the act.

      (muh private company, bUiLd uR oWn iNteRneT)

      True, but libertarian principles aren’t just a good idea only for governments.

  5. DaveSs   5 years ago

    Be nice if all the money they spent complying with censorious jackass was spent on hardening the internet against authoritarian blocking techniques so they could make the money and give governments the finger at the same time

  6. Don't look at me!   5 years ago

    They will give in. They think the same way.

  7. Rich   5 years ago

    “Facebook has a clear responsibility to respect human rights wherever they operate in the world”

    Citation needed.

  8. Earth Skeptic   5 years ago

    Could these assholes at least pretend not to relish a dystopian totalitarian future?

  9. Echospinner   5 years ago

    Aw shucks. Cant we all just get along?

    “And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
    Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn, next stop is Vietnam
    And it’s five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
    Well there ain’t no time to wonder why
    Whoopee! we’re all gonna die”

    1. Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf   5 years ago

      Or, perhaps more appropriately for this time of year ….

      You can get anything you want
      At Alice’s restaurant.
      You can get anything you want
      At Alice’s restaurant (exceptin’ Alice)
      Just walk right in
      It’s around the back
      Just a half a mile from the railroad track
      You can get anything you want
      from Alice’s restaurant.

      1. Árboles de la Barranca   5 years ago

        Evil minds that plot destruction
        …….In the fields the bodies burning
        As the war machine keeps turning……
        Politicians hide themselves away
        They only started the war……

        Ozzie sang this and some decades later later Sharon was attending Hillary Fundraisers.

        1. Rich   5 years ago

          “A little nostalgia for the old folks!”

          Tom Paxton’s “Mr. Blue” performed by Clear Light

      2. Echospinner   5 years ago

        I love that song.

        “Father rapers sittin right there on the bench next to me!”

  10. Sometimes Bad Is Bad   5 years ago

    Ah the cretins who run fb don’t like it when they get told to shut up.

  11. Unicorn Abattoir   5 years ago

    Facebook reportedly has revenues of almost $1 billion annually in Vietnam.

    Amateurs.

    /This comment brought to you by the Dow Chemical Corporation.

    1. RabbiHarveyWeinstein   5 years ago

      Are you referring to Dow’s production of Agent Orange?

      1. Unicorn Abattoir   5 years ago

        And napalm.

  12. Kungpowderfinger   5 years ago

    How can anyone think that Facebook will comply with a demand to censor “anti-state material” in foreign countries, and not pull the same evil shit in the USA? Is it not the same company/platform despite what country you’re in?

  13. doyah43793   5 years ago

    Mueller didn’t finish up like a prosecutor should. So DOJ picked up the slack and said there were NO CRIMES……. Read More

  14. Echospinner   5 years ago

    Vietnam is one of the few places I would like to visit. Probably never will.

    I have read that it is very popular with expats these days. Low cost of living. You can find nice apartments. The people are friendly. Good food.

  15. Uomo Del Ghiaccio   5 years ago

    Once a Social Media company opens up the door by censoring material, they have lost the argument against additional censorship being demanded by governments.

    A point is reached when the platform becomes so filtered that it becomes worthless or so much of a joke that users will leave and go elsewhere.

    The last refuge of these platforms is to snuggle up to governments in an attempt to protect their marketshare by increasing regulation to prevent startups from gaining ground.

  16. hateba4827   5 years ago

    “Some of my best friends are Democrats”
    Read More

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