this is the Technology Report.Internet activists and human rights groupsare criticising a decree that is setto go into effect in Vietnam on September 1st.The order says blogs and social media sites in Vietnamshould be used only to share personal information.It aims to ban social media users and bloggersfrom posting other information, such as news stories.Local media reports say the decree states that such sitesare "not allowed to quote, gather or summarize informationfrom press organizations or government websites."Prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved decree 72 in July.Internet activists say this is an attemptby the communist government to further restrict freedom of speech.Rights groups say the decree's requirements are overly broadand will be used to act against government critics.Others criticized a statement by Le Nam Thang,the Deputy Minister of Information and Communications.State media reported him of saying that the law aimsto help web users "find correct and clean information on the Internet."But blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh says that is a matter of personal choice.She says, People should be able to decide for themselveswhether information is good or bad.And she says, Vietnamese citizens do not needthe government to coach them on how to think.The decree sets out very broad categories of speechthat officials could consider as troublesome.It includes warnings about informationthat is against Vietnam or undermines certain principles.Shawn Crispin is the southeast Asia representativefor the Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ.He says the increased restrictions suggestthat the government thinks it has lost control of criticismthat is so widespread on social media."The campaign has indeed intensified over the last year.Authorities seem to be using the tactic of singling out individualcritical bloggers as a way of sending a signal to the larger communitythat this will not be tolerated."It is unclear how the government meansto enforce such widespread restrictions,and there is no word on what punishmentwould be given to those who break the law.But the deputy director for the Asia division at Human Watch,Phil Robertson says widespread enforcementmay not be necessary to gain the government's desire to effect."This is a law that has been established for selective persecution,"he says, "this is a law that will be used against certain peoplewho have become a thorn in the side of the authorities in Hanoi."And that's the Technology Report from VOA Learning English.更多听力请访问51voa.com