Vietnam

Population: 86 million
Internet users: 20.7 million

In January 2009, Vietnam's government issued a notice that could impact the country's vibrant community of nearly 1 million bloggers and their Internet service providers. According to the notice, blogs may contain only personal information and not "press articles, literary works, or other publications banned by the press law;" bloggers are forbidden from posting under other identities; and ISPs must submit biannual reports on the identities and potentially illegal activities of the bloggers they host.