Facebook has already agreed to comply with a demand by the Vietnamese government to censor “anti-state” material. But the government wants the social media company to block even more material, and the company is balking at that demand. So the government is now threatening to ban Facebook if it doesn’t comply with that demand. Facebook reportedly has revenues of almost $1 billion annually in Vietnam.
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