Beijing police detain 4 for sex video that spread online

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Beijing police detain 4 for sex video that spread online

BEIJING (AP) — Four people have been detained in connection with a sex video purportedly taken inside a Uniqlo fitting room that spread rapidly online, Beijing police said.

They were detained on suspicion of spreading obscene content, according to a police statement late Sunday. Police said they were still investigating the couple who can be seen in the cellphone video apparently having sex in the Japanese retailer's flagship Beijing store.

Uniqlo has denied any involvement in the video which spread widely online last week and gave rise to jokes about fitting rooms becoming the latest make-out spots.

The police statement said the couple admitted sending the video, which was made in April, to a friend on popular mobile chatting app WeChat, and that it later somehow appeared on the Twitter-like Sina Weibo's microblogging platform.

A 19-year-old man is suspected of posting the video online and the other three of spreading obscene information, the statement said.

In China, people convicted of disseminating obscene books, films, pictures and videos face up to two years' imprisonment, while those who make obscene products for profit face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

China's cyberspace administration has already chastised two of the country's main Internet companies, Sina Corp. which runs Sina Weibo, and Tencent Holding Ltd. which runs WeChat, for allowing the video to spread.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-07-20

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[Just1Voice]

Teens will be teens, no matter what country they are in/from.

Good thing they didn't have cell phones and mini cams when I was a teen.

[timmyp]

The potential punishment seems ridiculously harsh.

[luckizuchinni]

There are 55 crimes in China that are eligible for the death penalty. Some of these include smuggling counterfeit money, robbery, organized prostitution, embezzlement, escaping jail, and for soldiers, insubordination and surrender.

[oneday]

That's China...a repressive regime and a communist government. It's exactly what you would expect from a government like this.

[quandow]

Teens will be teens, no matter what country they are in/from.

Good thing they didn't have cell phones and mini cams when I was a teen.

And the stuff I would have posted if Facebook were around . . . whew!

[NickJ]

I watched the video. pretty tame compared to most others.

[BuaBS]

So no pr0n from China then.

No wonder the Japanese make so much , a billion potential custommers in China.

[wabothai]

That explains the large number of Chinese tourists swarming all over the world.

[squarethecircle]

Not sure why, in internet cafes in China it's not uncommon to see people watching porn, I guess this just got the attention of the authorities

[Brit_Doggie]

Brings back memories of when i was a lad becoming a man anywhere and eveywhere thats where it's at and it's hi ho silver lining never let it go now who sung that awful song no matter i don;t care.

[Publicus]

 

Not sure why, in internet cafes in China it's not uncommon to see people watching porn, I guess this just got the attention of the authorities

 

You are among the few around here who have a lot of experience in the CCP China where watching (almost entirely Japanese) porn used to be an easy passtime.

Given the limited Chinese porn industry, Japanese porn is not only copious but popular in the CCP China. Thailand has its own industry but, again, Japanese porn is popular here too as we know.

However, Xi Jinping has the past few years tightened every means of information, communication, entertainment and he's tightened it strictly and fiercely. Nowadays one needs a VPN to access anything not approved, yet the Red Army (government censors) work 24/7 using automated and cyber systems to prevent it.

In Guangdong province, in its capital Guangzhou City and in modern Shenzhen City adjacent to Hong Kong, internet cafes have employees patrolling them continuously to prevent any variations from the party lines of discipline. Public internet cafes in the CCP China certainly do not have a VPN either.

So I dunno where in the CCP China ordinary people could sit around in an internet cafe to watch anything prohibited by the party line, much less porn.

At the university where I was in Guangzhou and where the girls were typically pretty frosty towards the boys, the mass of male students had an unofficial major in Japanese porn, nightly. That's not so easy any more, or so I'm reliably advised.

Edited July 21, 2015 by Publicus

[brianj1964]

when i first saw the headline, i thought Leicester city were on tour again

[Basil B]

Will they have to do a re-enactment of the crime???

[fitnesspm]

Porn effects the brain like illegal drugs do! It kills your confidence and self esteem and leads anxiety and depression!

Have a read! http://www.yourbrainonporn.com/doing-what-you-evolved-to-do

Edited July 23, 2015 by fitnesspm

[squarethecircle]

Publicus:

"So I dunno where in the CCP China ordinary people could sit around in an internet cafe to watch anything prohibited by the party line, much less porn.

At the university where I was in Guangzhou and where the girls were typically pretty frosty towards the boys, the mass of male students had an unofficial major in Japanese porn, nightly. That's not so easy any more, or so I'm reliably advised. "

Ah well Obama and Xi signed a 10 year visa agreement to make it easy for the factory owners and CCP boyz to come to the US. The side effect is that it is now easy for normal Americans to go to China on long term visas. I do share your revile for the CCP people, they are easily recognized for how they look and for the brainwashing. I hear it was the same in Soviet Russia. 80% or more of Chinese are good, 80% or more of the rulers are no good.

And the porn is watched (just like in Thailand) readily in internet cafes. Don't think they use VPN's either. There is the old Chinese saying, "Mountains are high, emperor is far away." I guess doing a porn video inside a Uniqlo in Beijing was too close to the emperor, so to say, but yes there is consistent porn watching in internet cafes, at least ones I've been in 3 provinces in the country.

[jerojero]

As if this is so uncommon! Authorities are so hypocritical. Many partake of porn and make videos, I'm sure!

[Publicus]

Publicus:

"So I dunno where in the CCP China ordinary people could sit around in an internet cafe to watch anything prohibited by the party line, much less porn.

At the university where I was in Guangzhou and where the girls were typically pretty frosty towards the boys, the mass of male students had an unofficial major in Japanese porn, nightly. That's not so easy any more, or so I'm reliably advised. "

Ah well Obama and Xi signed a 10 year visa agreement to make it easy for the factory owners and CCP boyz to come to the US. The side effect is that it is now easy for normal Americans to go to China on long term visas. I do share your revile for the CCP people, they are easily recognized for how they look and for the brainwashing. I hear it was the same in Soviet Russia. 80% or more of Chinese are good, 80% or more of the rulers are no good.

And the porn is watched (just like in Thailand) readily in internet cafes. Don't think they use VPN's either. There is the old Chinese saying, "Mountains are high, emperor is far away." I guess doing a porn video inside a Uniqlo in Beijing was too close to the emperor, so to say, but yes there is consistent porn watching in internet cafes, at least ones I've been in 3 provinces in the country.

People knowledgeable about the CCP China such as yourself also know there is a great difference between the North and the South. I believe you are in the more traditional North while my several years experience was in the more culturally open deep South of the PRC.

The saying about the emperor and the mountains is pretty well known to foreign devils in China and, while it is accurate to the present, I just didn't experience any internet cafes in the very far away South that weren't patrolled continuously or that were able to access even this website, much less the BBC or CNN et al. Still, the end of last month I was visiting in Shenzhen and could access ThaiVisa.com without a vpn but got only super slow speed service, and almost every attempt to post disappeared in to cyberspace.

Xi Jinping has broadly imposed the worst censorship ever in the CCP China, far more extensive and closely monitored than any CCP Dictator before him. There will be no political revolution in the PRChina while Xi rules the place.

I disagree with your assessment of the PRChinese people. You say 80% are good while I assert 50% buy the CCP line hook line and sinker. Among the other 50%, half of them would throw out the bums in Beijing today, but the Bums have the 800,000 armed domestic security force that makes people not even think about it.

The Edison Chen sex uproar in 2008 in Hong Kong was heavily censored on the Mainland and remains so. My Chinese friends back then nonetheless brought up a website where everything was exposed for all to see. This one is hard to find online anywhere on the Mainland, so what about its availability up there in the Black Lung (Beijing).