Recommend businesses to place advertisements on whitelisted websites

Infringing advertisements on infringing websites

Visiting the website bongdalu4.com, dozens of advertisements immediately fill the screen. Accordingly, apart from the header, navigation bar and main content in the middle of the page, all the remaining area of the website is filled with advertisements - accounting for up to 70%.

Lao Dong's records on January 3, 4 and 5 show that the advertisements placed on this website are all related to football betting, gambling games, online casinos, fish shooting, lottery... Of the nearly 40 advertisements placed on this page, only 2 advertisements at the bottom of the page have the user's right to turn off the advertisement. All the remaining advertisements, users are forced to view when accessing this website. Although approving the display of a series of advertisements with signs of violating the law, the owner of this website denies all responsibility.

“All advertisements on our website are personal opinions of customers and have nothing to do with our website” - the owner of this website said.

Website bongdalu4.com is one of 403 websites showing signs of violating the law in 2023 that the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information (Ministry of Information and Communications) has just announced.

Similarly, on the website vebo2.tv - a website listed by the Ministry of Information and Communications as a website with signs of violating the law in the third quarter of 2022, there is also a flood of advertisements. On this website, there is only one type of advertisement, but this is an advertisement for football betting services. The advertisement appears densely in 7 positions on the website.

Place ads on “whitelisted” websites

On July 20, 2021, Decree 70/2021/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree 181/2013/ND-CP detailing the implementation of the Law on Advertising was issued by the Government . According to the provisions of Decree 70/2021/ND-CP, advertising service providers, advertising publishers, and advertisers who do not cooperate in publishing advertising products with electronic information sites have been notified by competent authorities of public violations of the law on the Electronic Information Portal of the Ministry of Information and Communications.

To implement the above regulations, the Ministry of Information and Communications publishes a list of electronic information sites that violate the law (providing betting advertising content, providing illegal electronic games of a gambling or prize-winning nature...) so that advertising service providers, advertising publishers, and advertisers are advised not to publish advertising products on these electronic information sites.

Previously, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Information and Communications, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Lam said that the Ministry of Information and Communications has created a “white list” - including websites, addresses, and platforms providing content that have been licensed/verified by the Ministry. The Ministry recommends that Vietnamese brands and advertising services place advertisements on these websites.

"We cannot allow decent advertisements to be placed on pirated sites," said Mr. Lam.

In addition, the Deputy Minister of Information and Communications said that it is necessary to "rectify" advertising by blocking and taking down advertisements for services that violate the law such as: Gambling, betting... Because these sites all find "living space" on websites that violate copyright.

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