Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communication–the MIC–has fined an advertising firm just over US$2,000 for showing advertisements on videos on YouTube that contained the nine-dash line, VN Express has reported. This was the fourth fine since the start of last year for WPP Communications Company Limited–also known as GroupM.
According to the article, the firm lamented that it was the fault of YouTube’s algorithm presumably because it automatically places advertisements. In this context, the regulations on advertising on videos depicting the nine-dash line become very difficult to adhere to. The MIC has released both a black list and a white list for advertisers so that they know where they can and cannot advertise, however, relative to the volume of content consumed each day via the internet these lists are very short and not particularly practical.