Vietnam plans to ask all social media users on platforms such as Facebook and YouTube to verify their identities. Photo: Olivier DOULIERY / AFP/FileSource: AFPVietnam plans to ask all social media users on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok to verify their identities, citing the need to combat online scams. But social media restrictions are also used by the communist state to curb freedom of expression, and government critics with online followings are regularly targeted. Lam added that there were times authorities could not track down social media users who violated the law because they used cross-border platforms. Earlier this year, authorities ordered mobile phone users to verify their identities and subsequently blocked around 1.2 million SIM cards.

Source: Daily Nation May 09, 2023 08:15 UTC