Announcing the list of "clean" channels and toxic channels on YouTube

It is expected that in May 2018, the Ministry of Information and Communications will announce a list of channels with clean content and channels with toxic content on YouTube, Minister Truong Minh Tuan said.

The report on the implementation results of the National Assembly's resolution on questioning by Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan has just been sent to National Assembly deputies.

Prevent advertising money from going to bad channels

The Minister's report devoted considerable space to the task of controlling bad, toxic, and offensive information on social networks, which the National Assembly assigned in a resolution after the question-and-answer session at the end of last year.

According to the report, the Ministry of Information and Communications continues to promote exchanges and cooperation with Facebook and Google to prevent and remove false information that is contrary to the views and policies of the Party and State and the directive solutions of the Government and Prime Minister on the two social networks Facebook and YouTube.

Recently, the Ministry has worked with Google to block and take down 6 toxic channels on YouTube.

Recently, the Ministry has worked with Google to block and remove 6 toxic channels on YouTube and 6 games from Google Play due to violations of Vietnamese law. The Ministry is also moving towards managing content according to the white list and black list on YouTube, so that the management agency can control more content produced and posted on YouTube by Vietnamese individuals and organizations every day, limiting violating content that affects users in Vietnam.

From there, advertising agencies and businesses with advertising brands in Vietnam using it when posting advertisements will help ensure content safety in online advertising activities on the YouTube system in Vietnam.

Creating a "white list" and "black list" is also to prevent advertising money from flowing to toxic YouTube channels that are indirectly nurturing anti-government forces and hostile forces.

The Ministry of Information and Communications plans to publish a list of clean content channels and channels with bad and toxic content on Youtube, aiming to provide information to the community for Internet users and businesses to refer to and avoid. This list is expected to be issued in May 2018.

Regarding Facebook, Minister Truong Minh Tuan said that the management agency regularly and continuously requests to block and remove many links with content that violates Vietnamese law. Facebook has also cooperated with the Ministry to verify official fanpages of agencies, organizations and individuals, contributing to clearly identifying clean and accurate information on the social network environment.

In addition, in order to complete the system of legal documents on Internet and online information management, in 2018, the Ministry of Information and Communications also drafted and submitted to the Government for consideration and promulgation Decree No. 27 amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 72/2013 on management, provision and use of Internet services and online information.

Rating and evaluation of network information sites

With the mission of "building and implementing a code of conduct on social networks for service providers and social network users in Vietnam, aiming to build a healthy and safe network environment in Vietnam", information from Minister Truong Minh Tuan is that the Ministry is directing the development and implementation of this code of conduct.

The results of the implementation of the task of "building a set of tools to collect, analyze and manage information on violations; tools to analyze, rank and evaluate websites according to traffic to serve as a basis for building and implementing appropriate state management policies on information on the Internet" are also updated in the report.

The leaders of the Ministry of Information and Communications presented that they had reviewed, searched, collected and analyzed data on the internet according to specific and specialized content as a basis for the Ministry to request Google and Facebook to block and remove information that violates Vietnamese law on their service infrastructure.

Since 2017, the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information of the Ministry has implemented the project "Investing in equipment, tools, and software to evaluate and rank electronic information pages and information content on the Internet to serve state management work".

Accordingly, the project is invested in equipment, software and data center to allow the measurement, evaluation and ranking of about 200 electronic press websites, general electronic information websites, online social networks... licensed and managed by the Vietnamese State management agency (domain name .vn or .com.vn) including electronic newspapers, magazines; general electronic information websites, social networks... of Vietnam but with servers located abroad and a number of foreign websites with high traffic in Vietnam.

The state management agency conducts quantitative measurement of the Internet audience (minimum 2,000 users) in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on different research infrastructures.

The project aims to establish tools for evaluating and managing information content (for website systems licensed by the Vietnamese government) to improve the efficiency and capacity of state management agencies in preventing and stopping content elements that are not in line with the Party and State of Vietnam. A database is built, statistics on the number of users on the Internet are collected, serving the reporting, ranking and evaluation of information pages on the Internet.