Perhaps Vietnam Should Work On Creating Gov't Sponsored Political Dissent Instead Of Porn

from the just-saying dept

Vietnam has a long, long history of trying to censor the internet, though they usually claim it’s to protect people from things like porn. In fact, just a few weeks ago, we noted that the filtering was apparently so effective that the government was creating its own online porn to encourage married couples to have sex with each other more often. Apparently, they claimed, married couples were having trouble figuring out how to fit tab A into slot B and needed some extra instruction. Of course, a new study suggests that perhaps the government would be better off creating fake political dissent online than porn. The tests of Vietnam’s internet filters discovered that, despite what officials claim, very little online porn is actually blocked, but plenty of political dissent seems to have been wiped out.


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dorpus says:

Who is the bigger sugar daddy?

Vietnam has profited from government-sponsored anti-Japanese riots in China, causing some Japanese factories to relocate to Vietnam. There is also a booming tourist business in hired Vietnamese slaves who tie shoelaces for Chinese businessmen or paint toenails for Japanese women.

Vietnam’s greatest public health problem at the moment isn’t so much AIDS, as cheap kitchen stoves that blow up and turn children into Freddy Krueger. But we know that has to be napalm from American bombs, don’t we? Vietnamese can spread propaganda, so Europeans can make their political posturing and blame everything on America.

Anonymous Coward says:

Re: Re: Re: Who is the bigger sugar daddy?

Yeah, dorpus didn’t sound like a tree hugger, just pointing out that vietnam gets some cheap-ass products ’cause their government is too busy making porn and blocking dissent to have something like we have; FDA, consumer protection agencies, etc.

Except the last sentence. I don’t think the europeans are involved, and besides, they dont need excuses to rag on us. We work hard, thats reason enough for them ๐Ÿ™‚

Dam says:

Already Doing it

I wish our gov’t would produce a bit more porn and a bit less killing and lies and political intrigue. But then, I am just a commie heathen godless bastard too, so..

I guess you are. Taxes, out of control welfare and government handouts – the working taxpayer in this country has been taking it up the ass fordecades. Isn’t that pornographic enough for you?

Government produced porn – not that’s obscene.

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