A new Decree 72 comes into effect next month, which according to the Vietnam government is intended to protect IPRs
and curb copying. However there are allegedly more sinister motives behind the rules. The
new Decree states that individuals may not “quote general information ... from
newspapers, press agencies, or other state-owned websites.” All news media in Vietnam are in general owned
and/or controlled by the government. Commentators see this as a prohibition on social media republication such as sharing others' posts, retweeting, political blogging and so on. The Committee to Protect Journalists’s Southeast Asia branch and the US embassy have both weighed in to criticise the Decree.
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