Streaming platform Huahua earned USD$2.3 million in profits in five months, according to media reports
Chinese police have arrested 20 people from a cross-border group accused of operating illegal live streaming platforms to broadcast pornographic content via the app Huahua, according to mainland online news outlet The Paper.
Eighteen suspects were arrested in the city of Macheng, which is located in China’s Hubei province, and two others were arrested in the Philippines — all for creating the platform, Huahua. According to TheDrum, Huahua had more than 900,000 registered users and had helped the group earn RMB 16 million — roughly US $2.3 million.
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But the two individuals arrested last month left the country, with the man, who we know only by his last name Hong, going to South Korea and then the Phillippines. Li, the last name of the woman, was there, and they reportedly created another app like Huahua.
This is hardly unusual in the wake of China’s porn crackdown. Thousands of sites have been shut down and hundreds of people have been arrested for their involvement with porn platforms. But people are finding workarounds, whether it’s by finding erotic content on gaming sites or getting creative, like adding a space between ASM and R to trick the policed search engines.
But the recent arrests indicate that Chinese authorities have no plans to practice any leniency when it comes to tracking down and punishing those who are risking steep fines and jail time to provide horned up internet users in the country with a space to satisfy their needs.
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Ya gotta be careful in China, they execute people at the drop of the hat. Not just got capital murder cases either.