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Comment Having lived there (Score 0) 140

I have lived in Vietnam for 18 months 8 years ago and i am planning to retire there soon. There is already censorship of Facecrack and other social sites, but most of the users get around it by using proxies. The BBC in Vietnamese is also banned and blocked by the parties firewall and again its easy to circumvent for the technically minded. The problem is not necessary the decrees as most of the population south of Hanoi simply see the police and government as a nuisance, its the punishments if you get caught publishing information about the corruption that's rife from the top down. When you get to court you have no defence and you will be punished as the government sees fit. http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=15824 https://www.cpj.org/2013/02/vietnam-detains-blogger-who-covered-corruption.php They recently stated that all Vietnamese must report if they see anyone using the internet in any way that opposes the government, which makes it difficult to know who is watching you, let alone the ISP's reporting your internet usage and the sites you visited, and any activist would not use a public terminal as eyes are everywhere. If they cant arrest you, they can make it very hard for you, we got moved 3 times by the police telling our landlords that we were not allowed to live in the places we rented just because we are legally married lesbians and we choose to live together in Saigon, during the harassment by the police we were detained and questioned by plain clothes police. They threatened to deport me and imprison my Vietnamese wife just because we choose to co-habit, in the end we had to lie to the police saying that we lived in separate houses, just to be able to live there. I think they have since relaxed the homophobic laws and I they say they will allow gay marriage in Vietnam at some point soon, but they will never relax the laws about reporting corruption as they are scared very scared.

Comment Re:Our Hobbies are Actually the Same (Score 0) 29

Hobbies also suggest that they are not developed by professionals so the list should be even shorter. How crap do you have to make your stuff to become a hobby game? What if an someone like me makes makes a game and makes money does it stop being a hobby? or vice versa, what if I make games all day every day and make no money am I Indie or hobby?

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