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Copyright © 2020, Los Angeles Times | | | |For months, Bui Van Thuan, a chemistry teacher turned crusading blogger in Vietnam, published one scathing Facebook post after another on a land dispute between villagers and the communist government.In a country with no independent media, Facebook provides the only platform where Vietnamese can read about contentious topics such as Dong Tam, a village outside Hanoi where residents were fighting authorities’ plans to seize farmland to build a factory.Believing a confrontation was inevitable, the 40-year-old Thuan condemned the country’s leaders in...

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