Vietnam To Police Blogs With Random Checks

Vietnam To Police Blogs With Random Checks, Self-ReportingBANGKOK—Vietnamese authorities plan to police the content of dissident blogs through random checks and self-policing by the country’s blogging community, a senior Vietnamese Internet security expert has told Radio Free Asia (RFA)“There should be a legal corridor to assure better operation of the blogs,” the director of the state-run Bach Khoa Internet Security Center, Nguyen Tu Quang, told RFA’s Vietnamese service. “We’ll manage them by randomly checking—we don’t need to control all the blogs.”“When we create a legal corridor, determining what is legal and what is a violation of Vietnamese law, the blog community will detect such things on its own and will let the government know of violations,” Quang said.Earlier this month, Information and Communication Deputy Minister Do Quy Doan was quoted as saying Hanoi would seek cooperation from Internet giants Google and Yahoo! to help "regulate" the country's flourishing blogging scene.The government will soon announce new rules, stressing that Weblogs should serve as personal online diaries and not organs to disseminate opinions about politics, religion, and society, senior officials were quoted as saying.The regulations aim "to create a legal base for bloggers and related agencies to tackle violations in the area of blogging," said Information and Communication Deputy Minister Do Quy Doan, according to the official Thanh Nien daily.The ministry "will contact Google and Yahoo! for cooperation in creating the best and the healthiest environment for bloggers," he added.Quang, speaking in a telephone interview, said getting help from Google and Yahoo! would be helpful but not critical. “Our effort to detect blogs will be more convenient if we can get help from the Internet companies,” he said, but added: “We can detect blogs without help from Internet companies.”
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