Barring Thailand, Vietnam has been the most materially comfortable place we've visited since Europe. The Vietnamese are a little like northern Europeans in that they work hard and keep things in order. One rather ominous downside, though, is that there are some websites that you cannot view from inside the country, notably Blogspot/Blogger. We can post but we can't read what we post once it's up. Weird.
In many parts of the world, dissident political dicussion, banned from all mass media, is forced to migrate to the World Wide Web. Voices find their outlet on blogging sites . . . unless they are in Vietnam or countries with similar free-speech restrictions.
Here's a link to a BBC story discussing a handbook to protect your blog or website from censors: Link
Actual web address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4271062.stm
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