Facebook agrees to censor on behalf of Vietnam’s Communist Party so it can still do business in the country

Facebook has decided that doing business in Vietnam is more important than its support of free speech.

Vietnam, recognized by international organizations as a nation with great free speech problems, has allowed Facebook's servers in the country to operate again after being down for seven weeks, now the social network has now agreed to censor anti-government content.

The Vietnam Communist Party last year enacted a new "cybersecurity" law prohibiting any anti-government content. The controversial law has resulted in some episodes in which people end up arrested for expressing themselves through Facebook and other social networks.

According to the Amnesty International, at least 16 people had been arrested earlier this year for violating the law.

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