Hanoi, Vietnam — Suspended for a Facebook post? That’s precisely what happened to one eighth-grade student in Vietnam, who was suspended from school for one year after she posted a parody of a speech by revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh on the social media site.
In the same week that an activist in Kuwait was imprisoned for insulting his nation’s leader on Twitter, Thanh Nien News reports how 14-year-old Nguyen Thanh Vy was suspended from her school in Hanoi for a Facebook post. School principal Nguyen Tan Si said the post, made in December, “had criticized the first term exam and insulted the teachers.”
Vietnam’s state-controlled media reported on Tuesday that Vy’s post had borrowed a portion from a famous speech by Ho Chi Minh in 1946 appealing for resistance against French colonialists. Minh’s original speech read:
“All students! As we desire peace, we have made concessions. But the more concessions we make, the more the teachers press on, for they are bent on failing us once again. No, we would rather sacrifice all than be dismissed. Never shall we have to take the exam again. We have to stand up!”
Meanwhile, Vy’s parody post read:
“All students, whether boy or girl, good or stupid, tall or short have to find ways to get good marks in the exam. Those who have health will use their health, those who have heads will use their heads. Those who have neither health or head have to copy or use cheat sheets.”
A local official in Quang Nam province told Phap Luat Viet Nam that the student was suspended for her Facebook post because she had “distorted history and seriously insulted teachers.”
Speaking to Thanh Nien News, Vy’s father Nguyen Duy Van said his daughter had been shocked by the school’s action was shocked by the dismissal:
“She is young and her thinking is immature. We are afraid it would traumatize her mind and jeopardize her future.”
no freedom of speech in her country coming to the usa if obama has his way.
I'm so glad that we won the Vietnam "war". It's because of our victory that Vietnam now experiences the freedoms that we as Americans so cherish.
I hope you're not breeding.
F the little red bastards. Should have destroyed that shit stain place.
Man, some people can't take a joke.
what ever anti psychotic drugs your on, UP the dosage
who cares if a gook is suspended in vietnam.. maybe they should have a cival war and fight for their rights…lmao.
you are a racist mother fuker
Be glad that here in America, we're free to say whatever derogatory, rude, classless, racist, dumbass remarks we want.
how fucking dare you insult those who were in the Vietnam war. those of you who ran and could not honor your country like so many did. I admit we lost a war but there is no need for assholes {Cody Stafford} to be a racist bastard on here. part of my family is military. how fucking dare you. Vietnam has its issues and political drama but please do not talk about them when the USA has its own. and the USA doesn't even take care of some of their Vets. stfu.
do you have downs?
That is just stupid…
SOMETHING.HUH.ONE LOVE
Yeah…the Obummer loving idiots just haven't figured out that he is actively trying to find a way to run for more terms…and If he has his way we will all be muslim and rename the country the United Sates of African America. I just hope I don't live long enough to watch this moron ruin what was a great country.
good girl, 1 year less from brainwashing I think.
apparently you know nothing about world history
to cody, apparently you never really studied world history
We didn't win. Where did you get that idea?
Hey cody I'm sure your kids had a "awesome" time teaching you how to use a computer.
NOT you suck old bastard
I think you writer got it wrong in Minh’s original speech from the beginning. And for me, as a Vietnamese student, I don't give a shit about political element here. That girl had been remarked for truanting, fighting and bullying others at school before she put the post on. Let's not talk about freedom of speech, democracy or whatever related to politic since the matter are her disrespect and rebellion. What the responsible did it wrong here is their stupid approach to deal with student like her. And think before you type, dumbass!
http://www.ibtimes.com/obama-doctrine-censuring-free-speech-798541
Your ignorance is written across your forehead. Obama will turn the country into "United States of African America" eh? Well, we all know you're a racist. We have a black president (who isn't a Muslim) and suddenly he wants to turn the nation into an "African American" nation? I REALLY hope you people aren't breeding.
Cody : What is a Cival war?? I've heard of a civil war.
sarcasm…
U racist ass stupid bitch. Hope u die and go to hell.
*you're
@Becca- Why are you asking someone if they have downs? From the look at your pic you look like a crackhead or were you on Meth?
You expressed my sentiments the very instant I read this report!
Becca Wallflower Trimble – Typically cruel and stupid reply by leftists to someone they disagree with – ah, but then we not alllowed to say anything against our Dear Leader without nasty personal attacks, isn't that right, Commissar Becca?
jwt, how utterly stupid can you get?
Neelofar SpleenKarimi Hard to believe people can think like Curtis Lloyd. Well said.
This is why we need a NEW Social Media Website where YOU choose who gets to see your posts, you keep your friends in your friends section, and your business/school teachers in another section – Check out my Profile here – https://www.webtalk.org/pub/shanebrown — Not only that, you can actually make money doing it!
I hope they increased your meds so you are not seeing the little pink teabags and elephants anymore.
I'm surprised our state-controlled media allowed us to see a story like this one.
As rude as that comment is and as uncalled for as it was – you should be thankful you have the freedom of speech. You little twit.
I wish it wasnt true but that is what Obutthole is trying to do!
Dry sarcasm is a dying art. It takes a brain to get it so most people don't.
Kill Kill Kill….moohoohahaha kill!
Darn right… and you are not me so I hate you. God bless america.
How is her post anywhere close to mihn's speech? Just because it started with 'All students''.
Obama really fool,I voted Romney.But stupid people like you should have to live in Vietnam.If you dont like the greatness of the USA move,but the stupid comments need to stop.
That depends upon where you're at. Technically, yes, that's true. But universities routinely stifle the free speech rights and discriminate against conservative students, outspoken Republican students, and even students who speak out against socialism, globalism, and communism. Even university professors are not immune to these tactics, even if they post conservative, antisocialism articles in private newspapers or websites without ever involving the name of the university they work for.
Here are a couple of articles to prove my point about censorship in America:
This article lists the worst cases of university censorship of 2012: http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/26/2012-a-tough-year-for-free-speech-on-campus/
Here's an article about a professor who was fired for criticizing "climate change." http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/20/professor-fired-after-expressing-climate-change-skepticism/
Here is an article about how Facebook is suspending and deleting accounts of those who speak out in support of gun rights. http://www.infowars.com/facebook-purges-pro-gun-accounts/
Here is an article about how Facebook suspended the account of someone who questioned the official narrative of the Newtown, CT school massacre. http://www.infowars.com/facebook-suspends-account-for-questioning-official-narrative-on-shooting/
There are plenty of other things you can find about how the mainstream media conveniently leaves out things that make Obama look bad and brands anyone who questions current policies as racist or elitist. Bush did it too, but branded his critics as unpatriotic.
Wake up people! There is censorship in America too!
I guess the commies don't understand satire. How can they be so cruel as to exclude this lady from a full year of political indoctrination?
Only if he's making butt babies.