; 22 U.S.C. 2151n note) (as amended by section 10 of this Act). 5. Actions to combat online censorship and surveillance in Vietnam (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Vietnam continues to have one of the world’s most restrictive internet environments, with pervasive filtering of content and the frequent arrests of bloggers and others whose only offense is to advocate online for positions different than those held by the government. (2) Since 2013, the Government of Vietnam has issued laws and decrees, including a cybersecurity law, that increased its ability to surveil its citizens without judicial oversight or recourse. The cybersecurity law has been used to charge Vietnamese citizens with vague crimes of negating revolutionary achievements and distributing misleading information among the people . Vietnam’s Penal Code and Decree 15 have also been used to render many legitimate online activities illegal, leading to the arrest and detentions of political prisoners. (3) The Government of Vietnam uses the cybersecurity law to require United States companies to store information in Vietnam, censor social media posts on demand, and to turn over sensitive personal information about users. Companies such as Facebook and Google comply with these requests, including through the censorship of social media content of United States citizens and permanent resident aliens. (4) United States companies Facebook and YouTube have been instrumental in this crackdown, complying with Vietnam’s request to censor and geoblock content determined to violate local Vietnamese law, which often contradicts international law and Vietnam’s treaty obligations. (5) In the first half of 2020, Facebook increased its content restrictions in Vietnam by 983 percent, a dramatic increase from the second half of 2019. (6) Facebook complied with 90 percent of Vietnam’s censorship requests in 2020 and YouTube with 95 percent of such requests, a fact the Government of Vietnam noted with satisfaction. (7) The local legal provisions that directly