City police on tear to shut porn Websites
By Ni Yinbin |
January 15, 2010, Friday
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EIGHT people have been caught and 38 Websites and six Web pages closed or censored by Shanghai police for allegedly spreading pornography on mobile phones.
Shanghai Public Security Bureau, which has been enforcing a crackdown since last month, hopes "to cut the profit chain of the suspected portals for a thorough elimination of all the problematic Websites," Qu Weifang, director of the information security department of the bureau, said yesterday.
Qu said suspects usually rent servers from other provinces or even overseas. They also prohibit local people from accessing the sites. Both steps are designed to escape the surveillance of local police.
"They attract the clients from other provinces," Qu explained. "Unless we get a tip about a site, it won't be easily found."
Some Internet and wireless application protocol sites are based in the United States, with clients in Shanghai, "which made it hard to shut them down," Qu added.
On December 11, Shanghai Putuo District police caught a man surnamed Chen in Anhui Province for renting a server to spread pornography on mobile phones.
The police said Chen's WAP site, yycao.cn, contained 195 videos, 145 pictures and 503 novels of obscenity. It attracted 370,000 clicks in just three days and brought Chen 3,000 yuan profit from commercials until local media were tipped.
Similarly, on December 21, two people were caught in a town in Guizhou Province for organizing a pornographic WAP site overseas. The operation had about 80,000 pictures and 5,000 videos. The site had an estimated 90,000 members, and was increasing by 100 a day, police said.
Shanghai Public Security Bureau, which has been enforcing a crackdown since last month, hopes "to cut the profit chain of the suspected portals for a thorough elimination of all the problematic Websites," Qu Weifang, director of the information security department of the bureau, said yesterday.
Qu said suspects usually rent servers from other provinces or even overseas. They also prohibit local people from accessing the sites. Both steps are designed to escape the surveillance of local police.
"They attract the clients from other provinces," Qu explained. "Unless we get a tip about a site, it won't be easily found."
Some Internet and wireless application protocol sites are based in the United States, with clients in Shanghai, "which made it hard to shut them down," Qu added.
On December 11, Shanghai Putuo District police caught a man surnamed Chen in Anhui Province for renting a server to spread pornography on mobile phones.
The police said Chen's WAP site, yycao.cn, contained 195 videos, 145 pictures and 503 novels of obscenity. It attracted 370,000 clicks in just three days and brought Chen 3,000 yuan profit from commercials until local media were tipped.
Similarly, on December 21, two people were caught in a town in Guizhou Province for organizing a pornographic WAP site overseas. The operation had about 80,000 pictures and 5,000 videos. The site had an estimated 90,000 members, and was increasing by 100 a day, police said.
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