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09-08-2004 12:33 PM |
Lucky not to be in China ...
http://p2pnet.net/story/2356
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p2pnet.net News:- Starting today, if a Chinese porn site is "clicked" more than 250,000 times, its owners could be jailed for life.
The sentence could be applied to anyone "engaged in the profit-oriented production and dissemination of pornographic materials through the Internet, mobile communication terminals and 'phone-sex' services," says the state news agency Xinhuanet here.
Reflecting a significant toughening-up of China's already strict anti-porn laws, "China's Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate jointly issued the interpretations Sunday on the application of law in handling criminal cases concerning the production, duplication, publication, sales and dissemination of electronic pornographic materials through the Internet, mobile communication terminals and phone-sex services," says the report.
"Depending on the seriousness of the cases, the sentences range from living under compulsory surveillance, detainment, taking into custody by the police, to various terms of imprisonment and life imprisonment," Xinhuanet states.
Nor will the new penalties be confined to people who use online porn for profit.
"[...]grave cases of non-profit production and dissemination of pornographic materials are also criminal and subject to punishment<' says the state agency.
"People who knowingly aid the production and dissemination of pornographic materials through the above-mentioned means are also culpable and will be punished."
In June, China's president Hu Jintao's issued instructions "to wage a people's war against pornography on the Internet".
China now offers Do-It-Yourself parental and commercial censorship and has been waging a war against Net cafes.
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