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04-27-2014, 07:18 PM
The IRL Impact of Viral Web Culture in Vietnam
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Last June, officials in Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communication canceled the release (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vietnamese-censors-ban-local-gangster-566158) of an eagerly anticipated film — Bui Doi Cho Lon or The Street Children of Chinatown — because it was deemed too violent, and didn't portray the "social realities" of Ho Chi Minh City.
The decision wasn't out of the ordinary; the Vietnamese government has a long history of censoring entertainment. In fact, one year earlier, the same government ****** banned The Hunger Games. But this time, Bui Doi Cho Lon's banning spurred many online memes and remixed images protesting the decision; they spread like wildfire on Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), with commenters on both sides of the argument sharing their opinions. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/27/viral-culture-vietnam/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Last June, officials in Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communication canceled the release (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vietnamese-censors-ban-local-gangster-566158) of an eagerly anticipated film — Bui Doi Cho Lon or The Street Children of Chinatown — because it was deemed too violent, and didn't portray the "social realities" of Ho Chi Minh City.
The decision wasn't out of the ordinary; the Vietnamese government has a long history of censoring entertainment. In fact, one year earlier, the same government ****** banned The Hunger Games. But this time, Bui Doi Cho Lon's banning spurred many online memes and remixed images protesting the decision; they spread like wildfire on Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), with commenters on both sides of the argument sharing their opinions. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/27/viral-culture-vietnam/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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