Vietnam has no such firewall, as such, our people are accustomed to fighting Internet reactionaries. There are 2 types of reactionaries:
The loud, in-your-face ones. They will openly express their hate towards our government, the Chinese government, and Communism. They will openly spread misinformation (either deliberately or because because they believe in it) to smear their ideological opponents. The Vietnamese people laugh at their face. We do not respect them and we do not heed them. As a result, they are mere annoyances, not that dangerous (ideologically speaking).
The subtle West-loving liberals/“arachists”/“leftists”/whatever-you-call. This type do not openly oppose government policies. Instead, they will hide behind the mask of politeness and subtly mix facts and lies in order to twist our understanding. They walk the thin line between truth and misinformation, legality and illegality. The Vietnamese people generally don’t guard against this type, because they aren’t obvious enough to notice. This type requires actual actions from our establishment (such as police investigations) to counter.
Also, type 1 usually loves Trump and type 2 usually stands with Biden.
Anyway, white reactionaries aren’t really interested in our online space. There are a few times the Vietnamese netizens and American netizens interact is when an English YouTube channel made videos about Vietnam (the topics are usually either the Vietnamese economic miracle or the Vietnam War). Fights usually happen between American rightwingers and Vietnamese in the comments, the results is usually the American comment being ratio’d. And that was Vietnam whose population is but a small fraction of China.
As for China, instead of suddenly open the gate for YouTube, Facebook, and the likes to flock in, I think it is safer for them to expand their already existing social media (Bilibili, Weibo, etc) to the English language. To be more precise: They should add foreign languages to the platform the Chinese themselves use (like how YouTube and Facebook do), not creating an “English fork” to separate Chinese from the rest of the world (which is what they already did).
Vietnam has no such firewall, as such, our people are accustomed to fighting Internet reactionaries. There are 2 types of reactionaries:
The loud, in-your-face ones. They will openly express their hate towards our government, the Chinese government, and Communism. They will openly spread misinformation (either deliberately or because because they believe in it) to smear their ideological opponents. The Vietnamese people laugh at their face. We do not respect them and we do not heed them. As a result, they are mere annoyances, not that dangerous (ideologically speaking).
The subtle West-loving liberals/“arachists”/“leftists”/whatever-you-call. This type do not openly oppose government policies. Instead, they will hide behind the mask of politeness and subtly mix facts and lies in order to twist our understanding. They walk the thin line between truth and misinformation, legality and illegality. The Vietnamese people generally don’t guard against this type, because they aren’t obvious enough to notice. This type requires actual actions from our establishment (such as police investigations) to counter.
Also, type 1 usually loves Trump and type 2 usually stands with Biden.
Anyway, white reactionaries aren’t really interested in our online space. There are a few times the Vietnamese netizens and American netizens interact is when an English YouTube channel made videos about Vietnam (the topics are usually either the Vietnamese economic miracle or the Vietnam War). Fights usually happen between American rightwingers and Vietnamese in the comments, the results is usually the American comment being ratio’d. And that was Vietnam whose population is but a small fraction of China.
As for China, instead of suddenly open the gate for YouTube, Facebook, and the likes to flock in, I think it is safer for them to expand their already existing social media (Bilibili, Weibo, etc) to the English language. To be more precise: They should add foreign languages to the platform the Chinese themselves use (like how YouTube and Facebook do), not creating an “English fork” to separate Chinese from the rest of the world (which is what they already did).
Any good sites you would recommend? I read www.vietnamplus.vn and I quite like it.