The student, only identified as Zhu, was detained in the eastern province of
Shandong on April 12, after he was suspected of operating five porn sites,
containing almost 170,000 pornographic images and obscene movie clips, the
Ministry of Public Security announced.
About 210,000 people had signed up to the porn sites Zhu allegedly operated -
"Demon's Island", "Global Beauty Pictures", "Community of Bloom", "Moon
Alliance" and "Pretty Vines", the police said.
Police also announced on Thursday that they had closed 1,450 porn Web sites and
deleted more than 30,000 obscene messages online since the government launched
a nationwide campaign to curb the spread of pornography on the Internet on
April 12.
Nearly 30 serious porn cases were cracked, the police said, but did not give
more details.
The campaign, expected to last six months, will target illegal online
activities such as distributing pornographic materials and organizing cyber
strip shows, and purge the Web of sexually-explicit images, stories, and audio
and video clips, according to Zhang Xinfeng, vice minister of public security.
China had 137 million Internet users at the end of 2006, with most of being
young people. The current massive campaign was launched as the government
believes the young people need to be protected from negative online influences.
A report by the Beijing Reformatory for Juvenile Delinquents said 33.5 percent
of its detainees were influenced by violent online games or erotic Web sites
when they committed crimes such as robbery and rape.
Xinhua
