At the reception, the Vietnamese leader acknowledged and appreciated goodwill of Google which was considered as a first step for both sides in sharing information on base of obeying international rule as well as Vietnam’s law; specially, after the working with Ms. Ann Lavin in March of 2017, both sides established private mechanism for Vietnam about dealing with requires of the Ministry of Information and Communications about blocking and deleting information infringement of Vietnam’s law on YouTube by December 31, 2017.
Particularly, Google blocked and removed 6,423 among 7,410 videos to YouTube because of Vietnam’s law infringement. In addition, Google also removed some game applications with reactionary and anti-State content out of the Google Play.
In order to strengthen effective cooperation as well as raise further knowledge between the Ministry of Information and Communications, Minister Truong Minh Tuan suggested Google carrying out removing channels having infringement content of Vietnam’s law instead of removing video clips as now, processing speed for suggestions from the Ministry of Information and Communications, early re-establishing mechanisms of updating processed results every week on Tuesday.
Google's Director, Public Policy and Government Affairs in Asia Pacific Ms. Ann Lavin said that target of the visit is to learn about Vietnam’s law and work with relevant agencies so that Google could clearly understand as well as cooperate further with the Southeast Asian country in the coming time.
She also pledged that Google understood clearly approachability of infringement text of Vietnam’s law being important and necessary to obey.
