Permanently close 4 general electronic information websites in Nghe An

The Ministry of Information and Communications and the Department of Information and Communications of Nghe An have issued many documents directing and implementing many measures to rectify the situation of "newspaperization" of the General Information Website. Accordingly, from warnings, criticisms to fines with many levels, the highest up to tens of millions of VND, the most serious is the temporary and indefinite closure of the domain name.

However, the situation of "newspaperization" of general information websites continues to occur in Nghe An. In this situation, the Department of Information and Communications Inspectorate has increased inspection, monitoring and strict handling of general information websites that violate the law.

Recently, the Inspectorate of the Department of Information and Communications discovered 5 sites violating the management and provision of information on the Internet. The Inspectorate of the Department invited the entities that registered and set up the General Electronic Information Site to work.

The news site thitruong24h.info was fined 25 million VND. Screenshot

The main violations are: Setting up a general information website without a license; not providing complete information on the homepage; self-producing news and articles like a press agency without a license; posting articles from press agencies without written approval from the intellectual property rights owner...

Pursuant to Clause 5, Article 20, Decree No. 119/2020/ND-CP dated October 7, 2020 of the Government, the Department of Information and Communications has imposed an administrative fine of VND 25 million on Mr. HNC in Le Loi ward, Vinh city, who is the owner of the information and communication site with the domain name thitruong24h.info; at the same time, forced the revocation of this domain name, because this is an unlicensed information and communication site.

For the other 4 news sites, Nghe An Department of Information and Communications has proposed to permanently close the domain names, specifically: http://tintucnghean.vn (the reason the company dissolved and is not operating), tinbinhduong.online, tintucconggiao.net, topuytin.com (the reason the entity registering to establish and operate the news site did not come to work with the authorities).

In the coming time, the Inspectorate of Nghe An Department of Information and Communications will continue to strengthen the management of information and communication sites, strictly handle violations in the management and provision of information on the Internet./.