Wednesday 9 April 2014

Web satire fosters change in communist Vietnam

DEMOCRACY
Web satire fosters change in communist Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City (AFP) April 08, 2014 - A critical blog post could land you in jail in communist Vietnam, but a satirical image of Cinderella which mocks the ruling elite? Likely to slip past the censors. The country's roughly 33 million Internet users, armed only with laptops and a sense of humour, are driving broader social change in the authoritarian nation than scores of imprisoned firebrand bloggers, experts say. From the ... more


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