Vietnam to require social media users to verify identity

According to this latest Reuters report, Vietnam will soon make identity verification mandatory for social media users of all platforms including foreign and local.

The official narrative of the state media is that they are doing it to "rein in online scams".

The measure, part of the Telecommunications Law Amendment to be issued by the end of this year, will enable law enforcement agencies to track down offenders using social media to break the law, state-run Voice of Vietnam (VOV) newspaper reported.

"Unverified accounts, no matter on local or foreign platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, will be dealt with."

Breaking: SBF may have donated as much money to Republicans too but "under the table"

Popular Youtuber CoffeeZilla has just made some remarkable revelations! Apparently, in an audio interview he did with Sam Bankman Fried earlier on 16th November, SBF candidly shares that he had donated as much money to Republicans as he did to Democrats, just not through the usual route but "under the table".

Should civil servants flaunt credentials on twitter and instagram? My views on Abhishek Singh's dismissal as Gujarat Elections Observer

A few days ago, IAS officer, public servant and actor Abhishek Singh made this tweet and apparently a few other instagram posts which seem to have caused ECI to remove him as Gujarat Elections Observer.

Malavika Hegde: Success Story of a Woman CEO who Single Handedly Brought Down CCD's Debt by ₹5000 crores

Today I came across this truly inspiring story of a woman entrepreneur named Malavika Hegde, and I'd like to share it with you. Malavika is, in fact, the CEO of CCD (Cafe Coffee Day), a very popular coffee and restaurant brand in India with 1700+ outlets across the country. You can see several Engineers in Bangalore CCD outlets deeply engrossed on their laptops while sipping a cup of coffee every now and then!

Canada couldn't protect her, the slaying of political dissidents will continue if people don't raise their voices

She wasn't even a dissident as it is typically imagined of this word, she was just a glorified blogger and youtuber for all practical purposes. Unfortunately, she wasn't someone famous like Snowden or Assange though, she was just a commoner like you and me. We were all involved in some kind of "activism" or other in our lives, weren't we? Me writing this blog post is also a kind of activism.

Reddit's business model is unholy and toxic

So this is what happened on Reddit today. A guy made a post on /r/WebDev subreddit about his troublesome experience with Firebase and Cloud Run cloud computing platforms, the post titled "We Burnt $72K testing Firebase + Cloud Run and almost went Bankrupt" was about how close they came to losing a fortune by merely participating in a product's free trial. The post attracted a lot of attention and instantly gained the top spot with 500+ upvotes.

Farmers protesting against reforms in India are shooting on their own feet

The agricultural reforms ongoing in India presently are very important and beneficial to farmers generally and in the long run. Privatization and free markets always win in a competitive world (which Indian food market definitely is).