CHAPTER 3 Prevention of and Dealing with an Infringement of Cybersecurity Article 16 Prevention of and dealing with information in cyberspace with contents being propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; information contents which incite riots, disrupt security or cause public disorder; which cause embarrassment or are slanderous; or which violate economic management order 1. Information in cyberspace with contents being propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam comprises: (a) Distortion or defamation of the people's administrative authorities; (b) Psychological warfare, inciting an invasive war; causing division or hatred between [Vietnamese] ethnic groups, religions and people of all countries; (c) Insulting the [Vietnamese] people, the national flag, national emblem, national anthem, great men, leaders, famous people or national heroes. 2. Information in cyberspace with contents inciting riots, disrupting security or causing public disorder comprises: (a) Calling for, mobilizing, instigating, threatening or causing division, conducting armed activities or using violence to oppose the people's administrative authorities; (b) Calling for, mobilizing, inciting, threatening, or embroiling a mass/crowd of people to disrupt or oppose people [officials] conducting their official duties, or obstructing the activities of agencies or organizations causing instability to security and order. 3. Information in cyberspace which causes embarrassment or which is slanderous comprises: (a) Serious infringement of the honour, reputation/prestige or dignity of other people; (b) Invented or untruthful information infringing the honour, reputation or dignity of other agencies, organizations or individuals or causing loss and damage to their lawful rights and interests. 4. Information in cyberspace which violates economic management order comprises: (a) Invented or untruthful information about products, goods, money, bonds, bills, cheques and other valuable papers; (b) Invented or untruthful information in the sectors of finance, banking, e-commerce, e-payment, currency trading, capital mobilization, multi-level trading and securities. 5. Information in cyberspace with invented or untruthful contents causing confusion amongst the Citizens, causing loss and damage to socio-economic activities, causing difficulties for the activities of State agencies or people performing their public duties [or] infringing the lawful rights and interests of other agencies, organizations and individuals. 6. The system administrator is responsible to implement managerial and technical measures in order to prevent, detect, stop and/or remove information with the contents prescribed in clauses 1 to 5 inclusive above on the system it administers when there is a request from the CTF. 7. The CTF and competent agencies shall apply the measures prescribed in sub-clauses (h), (i) and (l) of article 5.1 of this Law to deal with information in cyberspace with the contents prescribed in clauses 1 to 5 inclusive above.  Allens - Vietnam Laws Online Database on www.vietnamlaws.com 11