Society

China deals heavy blow to porn industry

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-11-05 22:40

BEIJING - China, in a campaign starting from last year end, has dealt a heavy blow to the porn industry, especially the online dissemination of obscene content via Internet and mobile phones, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Friday.

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Around 1332 people received punishments for producing, duplicating, publishing, selling and spreading pornographic and vulgar information from December 2009 to October 2010, and among them five were given prison sentences of five years or more, the SPC told Xinhua.

The SPC February issued a judicial interpretation on crimes of spreading obscene content via Internet, mobile WAP sites or telephone information service as the country has intensified its crackdown on online porn.