Hanoi (VNA) – The Authority of Broadcasting andElectronic Information (ABEI) on June 7 announced violations of Vietnam’s lawsby Google and YouTube.

Accordingly, Google was found to loosely manage contents, notcontrol ads on YouTube clips and Google Adsense network, allow users to buy adsdirectly from YouTube and Google without the involvement of domestic adsagents.

At present, Google is not applying measures to prevent the republicationof violating and deleted clips as required by competent agencies. It stillsuggests clips with inappropriate and harmful contents which account for 0.1percent of the total, but spread widely.

Violations were also committed by Google’s ads agents inVietnam, YouTube ads buyers and content creators, and Google’s multi-channelnetwork.

According to the Ministry of Information and Communications(MIC), there are about 55,000 harmful and law-violating clips on YouTube,nearly 8,000 of them have been deleted as requested by the ABEI.

In the near future, the ABEI will ask YouTube to identifyVietnamese channels, and only certified ones will be considered for ads revenuesharing.

The MIC will work with the State Bank of Vietnam andagencies concerned to closely manage ads revenue flows on YouTube and Google.

The ABEI will request YouTube to remove suggest feature forviolating channels, ban users to republish deleted clips, and partner with MICto remove inappropriate clips and channels.-VNA