Illustrative image (Source: amazeemetrics.com) Hanoi (VNA) - YouTube has removed approximately 90 percent of“toxic” video clips the Vietnamese Government complained about in 2017,Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan claimed on December22.
During a conference on the ministry’s performance this year and its agenda for2018, Tuan said that the Government so far requested Google to block and deleteabout 5,000 clips with bad content on YouTube, which is one of Google’ssubsidiaries.
Of which, 4,500 clips were erased from YouTube.
The largest social network in the world and also the most popular in Vietnam, Facebook, removed159 accounts smearing the reputation of officials and leaders or those postinganti-Party and State content this year, he said.
Under Vietnam’s request, Facebook also deleted 107 fake accounts and another394 advertising and selling illegal goods and services.
“One of the highlights of the (communications) ministry this year is making Vietnamone of those countries pioneering in implementing measures to tightenmanagement of enterprises providing trans-border services, particularly Googleand Facebook,” the minister said.
“Vietnam is among those countries of which the rate of their (removal) demandsatisfied by Google was the highest in the world,” he added.
In times of rapid technological development, Tuan said forces with evil intentswould take advantage to deliver toxic information using foreign-based socialservices.
The mission of the communications ministry in 2018 is to improve mechanisms tomonitor information on the Internet and manage foreign content serviceproviders operating in Vietnam, while encouraging domestic firms to join thesector.
According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, the sector gainedrevenue of more than 2.13 quadrillion VND (94.9 billion USD) this year, agrowth rate of 9.34 percent over 2016.
The information technology industry yielded about 1.7 quadrillion VND, about 80percent of the total sector’s revenue.
Communications service providers were far behind in the second place, with only352 trillion VND in the year despite growth over 2016.-VNA
During a conference on the ministry’s performance this year and its agenda for2018, Tuan said that the Government so far requested Google to block and deleteabout 5,000 clips with bad content on YouTube, which is one of Google’ssubsidiaries.
Of which, 4,500 clips were erased from YouTube.
The largest social network in the world and also the most popular in Vietnam, Facebook, removed159 accounts smearing the reputation of officials and leaders or those postinganti-Party and State content this year, he said.
Under Vietnam’s request, Facebook also deleted 107 fake accounts and another394 advertising and selling illegal goods and services.
“One of the highlights of the (communications) ministry this year is making Vietnamone of those countries pioneering in implementing measures to tightenmanagement of enterprises providing trans-border services, particularly Googleand Facebook,” the minister said.
“Vietnam is among those countries of which the rate of their (removal) demandsatisfied by Google was the highest in the world,” he added.
In times of rapid technological development, Tuan said forces with evil intentswould take advantage to deliver toxic information using foreign-based socialservices.
The mission of the communications ministry in 2018 is to improve mechanisms tomonitor information on the Internet and manage foreign content serviceproviders operating in Vietnam, while encouraging domestic firms to join thesector.
According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, the sector gainedrevenue of more than 2.13 quadrillion VND (94.9 billion USD) this year, agrowth rate of 9.34 percent over 2016.
The information technology industry yielded about 1.7 quadrillion VND, about 80percent of the total sector’s revenue.
Communications service providers were far behind in the second place, with only352 trillion VND in the year despite growth over 2016.-VNA
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