Good Morning, Vietnam, But Not for Facebook

Is Facebook being blocked in Vietnam, or isn’t it? Dong Ngo of CNET detailed his struggles accessing the social-networking site from Hanoi.

According to Ngo, while the Vietnamese government has made no official statement regarding Facebook, it depends on who you speak with, with Internet-service providers blaming technical issues, digital-subscriber-line and cellular-phone provider Viettel saying “there might be something wrong with Facebook” and Nguyen Phuong Nga, a representative of Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry, saying government agencies have been evaluating its content because “many people in Vietnam have been upset that a number of social Websites have been misused.”

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