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There is no local law in Vietnam that says "you must allow the state's army of troll bots to harass anyone in the world that speaks Vietnamese".

Facebook isn't complying with any local law here, and the behaviour in question isn't isolated to users in Vietnam. They are turning a blind eye to avoid retaliation for applying the same rules they'd apply elsewhere.

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> The law requires Facebook to set up offices in Vietnam (where operations can be controlled), hand over personal information to the government and remove content within 24 hours of government requests.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/...

The law doesn't explicitly state allowing troll bots, but it does have extremely strong opinions about how Facebook operates in Vietnam.

This is why I said local governments' requirements rather than laws. Those can be very different. As we have seen in US and elsewhere, intelligence agencies, institutions, and politicians exert influence in many ways. Most of this is opaque, but occasionally we get some leaks like the Twitter Files that reveal what is really going on.

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