Posting illegal content will result in Facebook being locked

Lawyer Nguyen Thu Thuy, YouMe Law Firm LLC replied:

Point b, Clause 5, Article 23 of Decree No. 147/2024/ND-CP (effective from December 25, 2024) stipulates that foreign organizations, enterprises and individuals shall carry out the procedure for handling illegal content, services and applications as follows:

For the prevention and removal of illegal content, services and applications, foreign organizations, enterprises and individuals must do so within 24 hours of receiving a written request or via electronic means from the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Public Security or a competent authority as prescribed by specialized laws.

For social network accounts, community pages, community groups, and content channels that regularly provide illegal content (within 30 days, there are at least 05 times of providing illegal content or within 90 days, there are at least 10 times of providing illegal content that the Ministry of Information and Communications or the Ministry of Public Security requests to be blocked or removed), foreign organizations, enterprises, and individuals shall temporarily block accounts, community pages, community groups, and content channels from allowing users in Vietnam to access them no later than 24 hours from the time of a written request or via electronic means from the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Public Security, or a competent authority as prescribed by specialized laws. The temporary blocking period ranges from 07 days to 30 days, depending on the number of times and the level of violations.

Upon request of the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Public Security or competent authorities as prescribed by specialized laws, foreign organizations, enterprises and individuals shall permanently block accounts, community pages, community groups and content channels from being accessed by users in Vietnam when posting content that violates national security or has been temporarily blocked 3 times or more.

For online applications that violate Vietnamese law, foreign organizations, businesses and individuals providing application stores must block and remove illegal applications within 24 hours of receiving a written request or via electronic means from the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Public Security or competent authorities as prescribed by specialized laws.

Foreign organizations, businesses and individuals are responsible for promptly preventing and removing, within 24 hours at the latest, content that violates Vietnam's national security upon request from the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Public Security or competent authorities as prescribed by specialized laws.

Thus, from December 25, 2024, Facebook accounts that regularly provide illegal content will be locked according to the above regulations.