What is the code of conduct for social media in Vietnam? How many codes of conduct for social media are there?
Vietnam: How many codes of conduct for social media are there?
Pursuant to Decision 874/QD-BTTTT 2021 on Code of conduct for social media issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications.
Accordingly, the Code of conduct for social media includes 05 rules: 01 general rule and 04 rules apply to:
- Organizations and individuals;
- Officials, public employees and workers in government agencies;
- Regulatory authorities;
- Social media service providers.
General code of conduct refers to principles applied to all groups:
- Respect for the law: Comply with Vietnamese regulations and law, respect legal rights and benefits of organizations, individuals.
- Healthy: Behaviors and responses on social media must conform to moral values, culture, and traditions of Vietnamese people.
- Information safety and security: Comply with regulations and guidelines on information safety and security.
- Accountability: Assume responsibilities for behaviors and responses on social media; cooperate with authorities in dealing with behaviors and contents violating regulations and law.
What is the code of conduct for social media in Vietnam? How many codes of conduct for social media are there? (Image from the internet)
What is the code of conduct for social media for organizations and individuals in Vietnam?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Code of Conduct issued with Decision 874/QD-BTTTT 2021, the code of conduct for organizations and individuals is as follows:
- Acknowledge and comply with terms on use guidelines social media service providers before registering and joining social media.
- Use real name or individuals and organizations, agencies, and register with service provider to verify name, website address and contact point when joining, using social media.
- Adopt solutions for managing, securing password of social media accounts, and immediately inform authorities and service providers when accounts of organizations, individuals are beyond their control, impersonated, exploited and used for unhealthy purposes, affecting national security and social order, affecting legal rights and benefits of organizations, individuals.
- Share information from reliable and trustworthy sources.
- Behave and respond according to moral values culture, and traditions of Vietnamese people; do not incite aggression, hatred, origin discrimination, sexism, or religious discrimination.
- Do no upload contents violating regulations and law, or information defaming, affecting legal rights and benefits of other organizations, individuals; do not use sensitive language, violating fine traditions; do not distribute false information; do not advertise, operate illegal businesses, etc. do not cause aggression among social discussion, affecting social order and safety.
- Encourage using social media to publicize and advertise Vietnamese country - people, cultural, sharing positive information and good people.
- Encourage relatives, friends and people around to educate, protect, and enable children, juveniles to use social media safely, healthily.
What is the code of conduct for social media for officials, public employees and workers in government agencies in Vietnam?
(1) For officials and public employees
Pursuant to the provisions in Article 5 of the Code of Conduct issued with Decision 874/QD-BTTTT 2021 as follows:
Code of conduct for officials, public employees and workers in government agencies
1. Officials, public employees and workers in government agencies shall conform up to Article 4 hereof.
2. Conform with regulations of their agencies, organizations regarding provision of information on social media.
3. Inform supervisory authorities for timely solutions, responses, and resolutions in case of controversies, information violating regulations and law relating to their tasks, functions, powers, and governing sectors.
Thus, officials and public employees must follow the above code of conduct for social media.
(2) For regulatory authorities
The code of conduct for regulatory authorities is determined in Article 6 of the Code of Conduct issued with Decision 874/QD-BTTTT 2021.
As follows:
- Conform to Article 4 of Decision 874/QD-BTTTT 2021.
- Assume responsibilities for managing, securing password of social media and immediately informing service providers when accounts of agencies, organizations are beyond their control or impersonated.
- Provide information on social media consistently with information provided on other mainstream media.
- Provide responses on social media regarding issues related to functions, tasks, and powers of their agencies, organizations.
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