Why Is Medium Blocked In Vietnam?

It’s not everywhere, but you might want to rethink your publishing schedule.

Dhallia
4 min readMay 22, 2022
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I’ve been in Vietnam for about 3 weeks and have had ups and downs accessing Medium.

The information I could find online was related to government censorship, providers blocking certain sources, or even Medium blocking Vietnamese IP’s.

Having said that, the information I found came from different forums, not from an official source, so not sure what’s true and what’s not…

Whatever the reason, it’s not easy to keep a publishing schedule because you simply don’t know when you will have access to Medium.

Places in Vietnam where Medium has worked so far

Photo by Minh Minh on Unsplash

Ho Chi Minh (Saigon)

We didn’t have access to Medium at our Airbnb but wedid have it in a coffee place nearby as well as a few other coffee places around the city. In this case, it could be the Airbnb host who chose an Internet package that blocked Medium…

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Dhallia

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