Vietnam’s parliament building in the capital city of Hanoi
The Standing Committee of Vietnam’s highest legislature National Assembly (NA) has discussed a draft law on press in which it tends to regulate the operation of social networks, saying that all press and press-like products must be under the state’s control.
by KTT and VQN, March 04, 2016
The Standing Committee of Vietnam’s highest legislature National Assembly (NA) has discussed a draft law on press in which it tends to regulate the operation of social networks, saying that all press and press-like products must be under the state’s control.
The committee proposed at its 45th meeting concluded on Feb 25 the NA allowing the supplementation of regulations on the license, operation and responsibility of social networks and general news portals because the sites have contents similar to those in the press.
Accordingly, the general information portals need to extract content, sources and time of the original news. They are also required to remove the entries if the original sources delete the posted information.
Users of social networks in Vietnam also need to follow the above rule when posting press-like information provided by overseas individuals or organizations.
In Vietnam, where around 30 million of people use social networks, people may be administratively fined or even criminalized for posting sensitive topics, especially those stories regarding corruption and poor management of the government and state officials.
Meanwhile, information portals have mushroomed in Vietnam to a recorded number of 1,610 units in recent years, as many as 100 times that of state-controlled online news outlets, according to Deputy Minister Truong Minh Tuan of Information and Communications.
Vietnam has 845 press agencies including 199 printing newspapers and 646 magazines, one national news agency, 98 online news portals, 67 television and radio stations. All of them are under strict control of the communist party’s Central Commission for Propaganda and Education, and the Ministry of Information and Communication. The country has nearly 18,000 licensed reporters.
The communist nation is one of countries having lowest score in the world’s press freedom index, and one of the biggest enemies of Internet, according to international human rights.
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March 5, 2016
Vietnam Parliament Wants to Regulate Social Networks
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Vietnam’s parliament building in the capital city of Hanoi
by KTT and VQN, March 04, 2016
The Standing Committee of Vietnam’s highest legislature National Assembly (NA) has discussed a draft law on press in which it tends to regulate the operation of social networks, saying that all press and press-like products must be under the state’s control.
The committee proposed at its 45th meeting concluded on Feb 25 the NA allowing the supplementation of regulations on the license, operation and responsibility of social networks and general news portals because the sites have contents similar to those in the press.
Accordingly, the general information portals need to extract content, sources and time of the original news. They are also required to remove the entries if the original sources delete the posted information.
Users of social networks in Vietnam also need to follow the above rule when posting press-like information provided by overseas individuals or organizations.
In Vietnam, where around 30 million of people use social networks, people may be administratively fined or even criminalized for posting sensitive topics, especially those stories regarding corruption and poor management of the government and state officials.
Meanwhile, information portals have mushroomed in Vietnam to a recorded number of 1,610 units in recent years, as many as 100 times that of state-controlled online news outlets, according to Deputy Minister Truong Minh Tuan of Information and Communications.
Vietnam has 845 press agencies including 199 printing newspapers and 646 magazines, one national news agency, 98 online news portals, 67 television and radio stations. All of them are under strict control of the communist party’s Central Commission for Propaganda and Education, and the Ministry of Information and Communication. The country has nearly 18,000 licensed reporters.
The communist nation is one of countries having lowest score in the world’s press freedom index, and one of the biggest enemies of Internet, according to international human rights.