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Censorship of Vietnamese social media

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Censorship of Vietnamese Social Media following Formosa Steel marine disaster

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Transnational Alliances: What barriers (logistical, cultural, historical, imagined) may limit the creation of international activist alliances against Formosa Plastics Group?

As lawyers in Taiwan have reported, the Vietnamese government has a record of censoring communication about the 2016 Formosa marine disaster. The blocking of certain keywords (Formosa, dead fish, Vu Ang) is a form of media injustice that local and diaspora activists have to work around.

TS: Formosa Plastics App

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Image: 麥寮六輕 6th Naphtha Cracker Plant

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DATA: What civic data and communication infrastructure is in place in this setting and how is it configured, accessible and usable? What data, infrastructure and visualization capacity is provided by federal government actors, lower level government acto

From a conversation with an environmental advocate in Mailiao, Yunlin County, we learned that workers at the 6th Naphtha Cracker have to install an app called Formosa Plastics [MDM 台塑MDM]. This app prevents workers and other visitors from using the phone's camera, which makes it much more difficult for workers to document incidences.