Internet obscenity and pornography are rampant, and the interest chain behind the disclosure of the Ministry of Public Security

  When pornography meets the internet, it is like dry wood meeting a fire, which is out of control. Even if the public security organs hit again and again, obscene pornographic websites still spread rapidly.


  The relevant person in charge of the Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security admitted to the reporter today (12th) that the crimes of online obscenity and pornography are still in a high-incidence situation, and they are constantly being fought. "Why is it so rampant? The underlying reason is the existence of the interest chain of obscene websites. "


  The latest data from the Ministry of Public Security shows that the Ministry of Public Security cracked 1,723 illegal and criminal cases and 527 criminal cases within three months of its special campaign against online pornography. Who is promoting the proliferation of pornographic websites?


  Who is the driving force behind the proliferation of pornographic websites


  Since profit is the driving force for the survival of websites, who is profiting from obscene pornographic websites? The relevant person in charge of the Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security disclosed that advertising alliance, also known as traffic providers, is the most influential in the interest chain of pornographic websites at present, and they are the driving force for the proliferation of pornographic websites.


  According to reports, advertising alliance is essentially an intermediary dealer in advertising, buying "traffic" from pornographic websites and selling it to other websites that need to promote services. "It’s like having a pornographic website, someone wants to place an advertisement, and the traffic provider makes a profit according to the click-through rate." The person in charge said.


  There are also some criminals who link Trojans on obscene websites, and when someone browses obscene pornographic websites, they automatically put in Trojans. Or, when users look at the page, they are prompted to download the player, and a Trojan horse program is tied in it to carry out network theft. The middle traffic quotient makes a profit according to how many computers are implanted.


  According to the disclosure, another profit model is to defraud the registration fee of netizens by building fake pornographic websites. For example, the "passionate videos" that often pop up in web pages don’t really provide obscene things. Webmasters trick users into using mobile phone registration to defraud fees by setting up fake pornographic websites, and the cheated money is divided among website builders, SP value-added service providers and mobile phone operators, usually accounting for one third each.


  "Illegal value-added service providers play a very bad role in the middle. Although they claim that they don’t know about pornographic websites at all, in fact, they are encouraging the establishment of seductive websites. Illegal value-added service providers are also the cause of the proliferation of pornographic websites. " The relevant person in charge of the Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security bluntly said.


  Who are the main advertisers of pornographic networks?


  On April 15th, 2009, Chengdu Public Security Bureau cracked a series of cases of "Sister Mayday" spreading obscene articles. Liu made a profit by building more than 100 pornographic websites such as "Sister Mayday" and placing advertisements for sex goods vendors such as "Sex Fun Castle" and "Red Sun" on the websites. His settlement method with sex goods vendors is based on the number of visits to the websites. The daily visits of his websites are about 100,000 IP, and the advertising revenue is about 15,000 yuan per month.


  According to the investigation of public security organs, the main online advertisers of obscene pornographic websites are "sex goods sellers" and "passionate video chat and dating websites". Sometimes these websites are traffic providers themselves, and some buy traffic through other traffic providers to place advertisements.


  The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Public Security said that these two are the main sources of profit from advertising on pornographic websites at present.


  According to reports, in essence, the money earned by pornographic website builders is not as much as that earned by intermediary advertisers, website promotion alliances or sex goods sellers, but only a small part of the benefits they reap.


  Who is supporting obscene websites?


  The investigation by the public security organs found that the third-party payment platform made profits by providing fund payment services for pornographic websites, gambling sites and other illegal websites. Many third-party payment platforms still provide services for others while knowing that they are building illegal websites such as obscenity and pornography.


  In the case of Wang spreading obscene articles detected by Sichuan public security organs, Wang contacted a customer service of NPS payment company and asked him to provide payment services for obscene pornographic websites. After learning that his website was pornographic, the customer service asked to increase the commission from 2.5% to 7%, and assisted the suspect to register false bank account information to avoid the investigation by public security organs.


  "The management of a large number of third-party payment platforms is not standardized. No matter whether you are legal or illegal, the eyes of supervision are closed." The relevant person in charge of the Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said.


  According to the investigation of relevant departments, the most popular payment service for pornographic websites is the famous Alipay.


  The relevant person in charge of the Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that at present, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of third-party payment platforms. However, the state has no relevant regulations on third-party payment platforms, which creates underground liquidity channels for criminals and can hide their identity and make illegal profits.


  There are also service providers who provide overseas domain name registration and hosting services for obscene websites. "A large number of obscene pornographic websites need to be hosted overseas, and there are people in China who provide services for hosting websites overseas. This service itself is not illegal, but at present, there are many cases where they know that others have established pornographic websites and still provide them with overseas domain name registration and hosting." The person in charge said.


  How to seize the throat of pornographic websites


  Recently, the public security organs found a large number of obscene and pornographic information in Tencent’s QQ space. After investigation, more than 70 such illegal and criminal cases were cracked and more than 70 people were investigated. Judging from the detection situation, it is basically to place an unequal number of videos and pictures in QQ space or use QQ groups to spread obscene and pornographic information.


  According to netizens, there are not many pornographic websites in China at present, but QQ Space and Baidu Snapshot are the ones with more pornographic information.


  In this regard, the person in charge of the Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security believes that operators should increase their corresponding regulatory responsibilities and delete relevant bad information in time according to relevant administrative regulations.


  According to reports, cutting off the interest chain that maintains the survival of pornographic websites has become the core content of eliminating obscene pornographic websites.


  In order to severely crack down on illegal crimes of online obscenity and pornography and eradicate the interest chain of pornographic websites, the Ministry of Public Security and other 10 departments decided to organize a nationwide special campaign to crack down on online obscenity and pornography from July to October 2009.


  "Through this special action, we will focus on detecting a number of major cases of obscenity and pornography, thoroughly rectify network access service providers, online advertisers and third-party payment companies related to the interest chain of online obscenity and pornography, cut off the interest chain of online obscenity and pornography, and purify the network environment." The person in charge said. (Reporter Wang Doudou)

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