Pixelated Semantics

A schizotypical inventory

Vietnam goes Chinese

Vietnam has imposed a similar regime of internet censorship to that of their Chinese neighbours. Strict controls on access, identity, and content have been introduced to "tighten the management of internet operations". This means action against citizens considered to be "disrupting social order" by accessing or creating "reactionary documents" online. The reportage itself contains a sentence that has high applicability to a majority of governments across the world at the present time:

"International human rights groups have accused Hanoi of using national security as a pretext to silence criticism of the one-party regime."

Substitute your nearest government for "Hanoi" and adjust "one-party" as required, and see if you can find any semantic difference with other nations, such as Australia or the USA. Its only a question of degree of "silencing" in most cases.

Item posted by AutoEditor at 2:20 pm ::