"Vietnamese Facebook User Hit With Five-Year Prison Term Amid Tightening Restrictions on Press Freedoms", 28 April 2020

Vietnamese authorities....sentenced a young Facebook user to a five-year prison term on charges of spreading propaganda against the state for his online postings amid a deepening crackdown on freedom of expression in the one-party communist state.

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Facebook has come under fire from Vietnamese and international rights activists after the social media giant publicly admitted it has agreed to help communist authorities censor posts critical of the government.

...[C]ompany's servers in Vietnam were taken offline for about seven weeks earlier in the year until Facebook agreed to government demands to remove posts considered by authorities to have criticized the communist state.

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...Facebook spokesperson Amy Sawitta Lefevre defended her company's action, saying that though freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, Facebook risked being blocked by authorities in Vietnam if the company refused to comply.

"We have taken this action to ensure our services remain available and usable for millions of people in Vietnam, who rely on them every day," Lefevre said.

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