4. Preventing the abuse of the Internet to affect national security and social order and
safety, violate ethics, fine traditions and customs and law. Taking measures to protect
children, adolescents and young people from negative impacts of the Internet.
5. Ensuring that only legal information under Vietnamese law is transmitted, even across
the border, to Internet users in Vietnam.
6. Encouraging and facilitating the use of “.vn” domain names, domain names in
Vietnamese, and shifting to addresses using IPv6 technology.
7. Promoting international cooperation on the Internet on the basis of respect for
independence, sovereignty, equality, mutual benefits, and conformity with Vietnamese
law and the treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a contracting party.
Article 5. Prohibited acts
1. Abusing the provision and use of Internet services and online information for:
a/ Opposing the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; undermining the national
security and social order and safety; sabotaging the great national unity bloc; conducting
propaganda about wars and terrorism; sowing hatred and contradictions among nations,
races and religions;
b/ Propagating and inciting violence, obscenity, pornography, crimes, social vices and
superstition; harming the national fine traditions and customs;
c/ Disclosing state secrets, military, economic and diplomacy secrets, and other secrets
provided by law;
d/ Providing information distorting, slandering or offending the prestige of organizations
or honor and dignity of individuals;
dd/ Advertising, propagating and trading in banned goods or services; spreading banned
newspaper articles, literary and art works and publications;
e/ Impersonating other organizations and individuals and spreading false and untruthful
information that infringes upon the rights and lawful interests of other organizations and
individuals.
2. Illegally obstructing the lawful provision of and access to information, the provision
and use of lawful services on the Internet by other organizations and individuals.