Comprehensive review of TikTok's operations in Vietnam in May

Bad influence on young people and users

On April 6, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) held a regular press conference to provide information on the activities of the Ministry and sectors in the first 3 months of the year.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Information and Communications has announced many violations of cross-border social networking platforms in Vietnam .

In previous years, the Ministry of Information and Communications pointed out violations by Facebook, Youtube, and Google. These are platforms that have been operating in Vietnam for quite a long time, about 10 years. However, from 2019 to now, a new social networking platform, TikTok, has emerged in Vietnam with many violations of the law.

According to Mr. Le Quang Tu Do, Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information (Ministry of Information and Communications), the TikTok platform used to have purely entertainment content. However, starting from 2022, a lot of content against the Party and the State appeared on this platform. Along with that, a lot of toxic content has developed strongly on TikTok, affecting Vietnamese children.

TikTok content is addictive and constantly creates toxic trends. Toxic content on TikTok also easily creates trends that negatively affect young people and users.

Event - TikTok's operations in Vietnam will be comprehensively inspected in May — Mr. Le Quang Tu Do informed at the press conference.

Recently, many celebrities and internet idols have appeared on TikTok. This platform allows social media users to donate money to internet idols, but TikTok does not encourage good, creative content. This leads to many people using toxic, nonsense, uncultured content, hitting the "animal" part of people to get more money from internet users.

In addition, TikTok does not have effective measures to control copyrighted content, especially film copyright, along with information that arbitrarily uses images, violating users' privacy.

On TikTok, there are also many videos with distorted content about Vietnamese history and culture, content using provocative and revealing images, accompanied by content degrading Vietnamese people.

In addition to content that is dangerous to children, this platform also condones and encourages many illegal business activities.

Or recently the press also reflected the phenomenon of nonsense career guidance, there are people who claim to be teachers, give misleading advice such as don't read books, university degrees are useless, thereby creating false information.

Mr. Le Quang Tu Do assessed that TikTok does not have effective measures to control content related to politics, anti-Party and anti-State content; fake news; nonsense and toxic content.

Even dangerous to children, business activities, trade, advertising of counterfeit goods, fake goods, aphrodisiacs, functional foods of unknown origin...

He also said that the consequences of the above violations led to TikTok creating a favorable environment for fake news to spread, causing economic damage and social instability.

Besides, this platform has encouraged young people to imitate and follow bad and offensive trends, distorting the perception and lifestyle of young people, and corrupting the cultural values of the nation...

Check out all of TikTok's activities in Vietnam

Event - TikTok's operations in Vietnam will be comprehensively inspected in May (Figure 2). — The content on TikTok is addictive and constantly creates toxic trends.

Based on the above situation, the Ministry of Information and Communications said it will require businesses providing cross-border services to be responsible for preventing and removing infringing content and information at the request of competent authorities.

In case these organizations and individuals do not comply, the competent authority will deploy technical measures to block all content, services, and applications on the network that violate the law.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has coordinated with relevant ministries and sectors to organize meetings many times and issue documents resolutely requesting TikTok and other cross-border platforms such as Facebook and Youtube to proactively prevent and remove infringing information. In addition, the Ministry has developed tools and techniques to scan, detect and handle infringing information.

In the coming time, the Ministry of Information and Communications will synchronously deploy legal, economic, technical, diplomatic, and communications solutions... to require cross-border platforms to comply with Vietnamese law.

The Ministry of Information and Communications will have an interdisciplinary inspection team in May 2023 to inspect all of TikTok's operations in Vietnam.

Responding to further questions from the press about "How does the Ministry evaluate the ban on TikTok in Vietnam?", Mr. Le Quang Tu Do said: "After a comprehensive inspection, together with the ministry, the departments will evaluate and propose specific solutions. There is only one message that can be shared: all cross-border platforms entering Vietnam must comply with Vietnamese law . Any platform that does not comply with Vietnamese law will certainly not be given the opportunity to operate in Vietnam" .

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