Porn Site Operator Jailed in China

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The creator of China's largest pornographic Web site was jailed for life on Wednesday, state media reported.

Xinhua News Agency said judges at the Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court in Shanxi province gave the life sentence to Chen Hui and handed down terms of 13 months to 10 years to eight others after they were convicted of profiting from pornographic dissemination.

Chen, 28, and his accomplices started the Qingseliuyuetian (Pornographic Summer) Web site in 2004, and opened a further three porn Web sites, attracting more than 600,000 users.

Xinhua reported that police said it was difficult to know the exact amount of profits the Web site earned. Police found about 200,000 yuan ($25,000) in the bank accounts of the nine.

When the site was closed in October last year, it contained more than 9 million pornographic images and articles, the police said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/11/22/international/i091159S41.DTL

[Der Blaue Engel]

1. How long before someone says he deserves it?

Fascist oppression of free speech: coming to a democratic republic near you. :(

[MADem]

2. How long before the STATE regulates it? That's a money-maker

They're very pragmatic over that way....

[Virginia Dare]

7. I think you're onto something there...

my first thought was he didn't give the State a big enough cut, or he tried to hide it from them. Had he cut them in on the deal from the get-go things might have been very different.

[madrchsod]

3. a fundy christan's wet dream-

jailing pornographers for life.

[Leftisalwaysright]

4. Isn't this happening in America?

Isn't there a guy who runs a porn site in Florida that's in jail? I'll try and find more information, but I know a guy was in jail at one time...

[Trillo]

6. Bottom of article states censorship of "pornographic or subversive"

material. The "subversive" portion certainly reminds of U.S Corporate media censorship of anything critical of Bush, at least for the vast majority of the time he's been in office.

Is the censorship of Chinese culture responsible for why U.S. media has not been more resistant to Bush?

China to censor vulgar content from its television screens
(Xinhua) Updated: 2006-11-10 20:15
CHENGDU -- China will censor what its television administration deems to be "vulgar content" from its television screens, such as extramarital sex, violence and pornography.
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Entertainment programs, talk shows and dramas in local dialects will be the major targets of SARFT's inspections, a source from the conference said.
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"Local TV stations will be severely punished if their programs are found to contain vulgar content," Wang said.

This is another move by SARFT to exert tighter control over China's screens after it banned some TV serials which were said to have gone into too much detail in portraying how criminals committed certain crimes. It also banned prime time TV serials which showed fictional versions of historical events.
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The logic flaw seems the connection of violence to pornography, to me they seem much more like opposites instead of similars. I read somewhere that violence and rapes have been reduced by greater dissemination of pornography.

OTOH, maybe China's concerned that it encourages more children.

I'm not certain what science says about pornography and crime, does anyone know and have links to journal articles about it?

[Xipe Totec]

5. What exactly were the charges?

Defaulting on bribes?

Failure to submit to merchandise inspection?

No free samples?

:shrug: