Apparently Vietnam has a surplus of cyber labor that they can leverage to “seek to battle ‘wrong’ views online” according to a report today by the Financial Times. The Vietnamese military is building a 10,000 person cyber unit to crack down on domestic bloggers, activists and others that may report on or speak out against government policies.
Here in America, and in many if not most first world nations, building a trained and skilled cyber workforce is a challenge, let alone having 20k spare eyes just to watch its own citizens, looking for dissent. I can only imagine the good that could be done with that scope of skilled cyber labor force elsewhere.