Parody videos are relatively common in the United States, but in some other countries they can land their maker in jail. That’s what just happened in Vietnam, where an activist was sentenced to more than five years in prison for mocking an official who had chowed down on a gold-encrusted steak, The New York Times reported on Friday. (Vietnam is under Communist Party rule and is officially designated a socialist republic.) Somehow, the story also involves the internet personality Salt Bae. Two years ago, General To Lam, who oversees Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security, traveled to Britain for a climate-change ... (full story)