A streamer who played League of Legends and then streamed it live on the Facebook Gaming platform is being considered by the government for punishment because of a statement related to the President during her live stream.
According to the Labor newspaper network, a leader of the Hanoi Department of Information and Communications on the morning of August 26 said that this agency has assigned the department’s Inspector to review and handle female streamers whose statements were considered a lack of standards, insulting senior leaders, is being spread on social networks.
According to this official, the verification process must be careful, accurate, and legal in both content and procedure.
Previously, the social network spread the video clip from the live stream of streamer Milona (real name Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan), after reading an account’s comment about bald people, she responded by taking the President of the country as an example.
Originally the video this girl said:
“People who watch 18+ movies a lot are often a bit bald.
Ah, ok, sir. But I’m sure the President doesn’t do anything all day at home, he watches 18+ movies, so he is bald.
The head has no hair, the head still has a few strands of hair, right? Because he won’t do anything, just stay at home all day watching 18+ movies.”
This gamer’s statement did not specifically mention the President of the country, but many newspapers or Facebook accounts suggested handling it because it mentioned one of the “four highest leaders” of Vietnam.
An unnamed human rights lawyer from Hanoi said that the girl’s statement did not cause any harm and that it was just a joke of the female streamer.
“I find it quite funny that the management agency threatens to punish her and the majority of young people ask for a fine because they do not understand what freedom of expression is.
The behavior of state agencies and the vast majority of young people reminds me of feudal times when someone who spoke blasphemously about the King would be punished, but today we live in modern society not the old custom of the old days.
Such thinking, in my opinion, is extremely dangerous when the fear, aversion, and fear of offending senior leaders are deeply ingrained in the minds of the masses.
Over time, that way of thinking will become submissive and unwilling to resist when senior leadership misbehaves.”
Female streamer Milona with more than 200,000 followers on Facebook is quite a celebrity in the world of people who play games and live stream and comment on her plays.
Vietnam is a one-party country led by the Communist Party alone, often with little tolerance for contradictory statements and criticisms on social networks and in real life.
Freedom House has classified the country as “without Internet freedom” for many years in a row due to increasing pressure from the Vietnamese government on major foreign social networks to restrict and censor content deemed “sensitive” or “important” to the state.
A spokesman for Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied these reports and said that the organization “unobjectively and judiciously evaluated based on untrue information about Vietnam.”
Thoibao.de (Translated)
