On Feb. 16, 2011, social innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs and philanthropists gathered at the Ford Foundation to take on the greatest challenge of our time: How to create an innovative and equitable digital future. Speaking in the panel “Hacking Our Way Back to Democracy,” Viet Tan’s Duy Hoang shares his thoughts on the challenges of circumventing the firewall and how Vietnamese netizens are using digital tools to amplify voices of dissent.
Repression in Vietnam and abroad under General To Lam’s police state
Viet Tan
May 25, 2026
Over the past two years, the level of repression under Communist Party Chief To Lam, who holds the rank of Police General, has increased in severity against both citizens within the country and individuals in the Vietnamese diaspora.
