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This is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam state run news agency reporting on the annual Tet holiday internet "outage" caused by "cable failure" it has gotten better over the years. Instead of complete blackout they slow social down to a total crawl or dead, my guess is they do it to stop the ability for any kind of organized public uprising, protest or civil unrest.

It is normal in Vietnam to have nation wide internet blackouts leading up to some politically important moment, holidays or maneuver. The authorities always blame some upstream fault and there is silence from government on it (apart from injecting some press about undersea cable failure. One year they put an article about sharks developing a penchant for internet cables which is now the running joke), the expat forums in Vietnam have pretty frequent and humorous complaints about it.

My colleagues in Vietnam frequently get cut off for days and just laugh that the "shark ate cable again"

Vietnam cant be connected by only undersea cables, they have land borders with China, Laos and Cambodia, whilst *mostly third world countries their internet is doing just fine during these Vietnamese internet outages. Not far away is Singapore - an island, with an AWS, Azure and GCP regions and they do not have shark eating cable internet outages.

TLDR this article is total BS