New rules govern social networking sites

The management of websites and online social net-works will be governed by Circular No 14/2010/TT-BBTTT, issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications on June 29.

Under the new regulation, websites that introduce products, services, or business lines of an enterprise or organisation and do not entail an exchange of information will not be required to have a license or other registration. However, the homepage must show the name, address, phone number and email address of the organisation managing the site, as well as the name of the webmaster in charge of maintaining the site.

The circular also extends the scope of websites that required registration to sites providing online social networking services, websites of media agencies, websites providing specialised applications or services, and sites that provide general information in the spheres of politics, economics, culture and society.

In addition to the information that must be shown on the homepages of unregistered sites, the homepage of a registered site must list the site’s license number and issue date.

The procedure for granting a license is the same as those that are already in place for registering websites. Under the new rules, however, all registered sites must notify the licensing authority of the site’s termination 10 working days prior to termination.

Tags: social networking sites

Posted by VBN on Jul 21 2010. Filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry