Vietnam to block ads on ‘toxic’ online content in further crackdown

HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam is drafting a blacklist of internet sites — together with particular person person accounts on YouTube and Fb — that will probably be barred from receiving promoting income if they’re deemed to have posted anti-government or in any other case “poisonous” content material.

Hanoi stated it’ll “strictly punish” corporations that publicize on such websites, a transfer campaigners worry will add to a local weather of much less “free expression than ever.”