Chinese Student Jailed 10 Years For A Website

An university student was convicted to 10 years of prision for posting porn contents in his website. According to China Daily, the young boy live in Wuxi and he decided to post 847 porn photos and 777 porn videos, in an attempt to increase his website visitors. This website was at begining a simple internet buisness to sell flowers. With porn introduction the website count 2,39 Millions of visitors with only to months.Besides the arrest he has to pay 10 000 iuanes.PS: Very good combination : FLOWERS + PORN = PORNFLOWERS ? Just kidding cheers m8's

I do not thing FLOWERS + PORN is a good combination..if I want to buy flower online, I wont click into this site.even I click into this website, I wont buy any productfrom it. Can you really trust a online flower selling shopwhich offer you pornographic?? I don;t.

Porn sites are popular, but did you mean 2 months ? Maybe having some adult content is quite good, but I am only joking, I don't really understand what is so funny to browse some porn sites :| Well I have several friends who do it, but they better do something else instead. Anyway, 10 years in prison is to much in my opinion, but it is China, good - one more porn site less, but a lot of new ones appeared

It was a slight overreaction but still to post porn and flowers together is really unecessary. I think porn should be banned from internet all together but still I doubt the boy should get 10 years punishment and have to pay all that money. I agree with jedipi that it doesn't really add to the trust if you add porn on a flower selling sight. I mean what is to stop that person from misusing the information.

man, this is really lame, I personally would never go to such way of attracting visitors... And anyway, if it's illegal to do such stuff in china, you must be really stupid to do it...

wow, it's pretty obvious that you would get cought I don't know why anyone would use porn to try to sell flowers. 10 years is alot but its obvious that you'll get cought when you have 239 million people going onto your site so he shouldn't of just done it in the first place.

Gee, so much for China and democracy trying to get along.

Could you post a link to the relevant news article? =^^=Nothing unusual about going to jail for putting up porn, but the 10-year sentence certainly seems extreme. Then again, this is China we're talking about — the same country that pressured Google into censoring the Internet. Extreme is a fact of life for them.One thing I wonder about, though, is how the kid figured that porn would help sell flowers. Selling porn subscriptions I can understand, but flowers? =^^=

That is one of the most hilarious things I've read about on the internet in a while. Course there was probably a large gap in the number of visitors on the website and the number of people who actually bought flowers. 10 years for a porn site. If that happened everywhere else in the world the prisons would be jam packed.

One thing I wonder about, though, is how the kid figured that porn would help sell flowers. Selling porn subscriptions I can understand, but flowers? =^^=

As I said above it probably didn't help flower sales. It probably just increased the amount of visitors...and the amount he had to pay his host for the giant leap in Bandiwith usage.

@cyborgxxiForbidding all porn on the internet is like the most impossible thing to do. Not only is it impossible to unite with a democratic thinking, but also a task impossible to execute at the present point. I would generously estimate that 80% of all internet sites somehow contain porn and of the data amount floating the net and being downloaded in filesharing I would estimate, that it amounts to 90%. Probably it's not all that bad, but I guess there are some studies out there, that have similarly dramatic results.I'm just wondering: Aren't the Chinese allowed to surf any foreign sites at all? I thought it was limited to certain subjects, which would make it impossible to ban all the official, inofficial and semi-official porn sites, not to mention all the stuff on the different sharing networks...

If I would have been at that position I wouldnt have done any thingf like this to my site nor I would like to byu even a single piece of rose from there ..........Its really very unsual to have a pornographic introduction of a simple flower selling site and it increased the no of clicks to 2.38 million in just two months (unbelivable) and for this he was senetenced to 10,yrs of jail too much either they are sick or this is nerely a rumer..............

These days anyone can make a pornographic web site. I really can't tell that I know how much it brings, but I bet they are rather profitable - the ones that require you to register even more.However, mixing porn with flowers (who buys flowers online anyway?) isn't a good idea. As I already said, anyone can do it, but that's not the point! I could have done that to, but I didn't. I prefer looking at my web site visitors number slowly increasing.As for going to jail, I guess it is OK, but 10 years is a bit too much! But hey - it's China.

I'm just wondering: Aren't the Chinese allowed to surf any foreign sites at all? I thought it was limited to certain subjects, which would make it impossible to ban all the official, inofficial and semi-official porn sites, not to mention all the stuff on the different sharing networks...

It probably is quite hard..but there is the great firewall of China. They're going to constantly try to improve that. While others are constantly trying to deprove it as well. Anyway, I think this porn and flowers thing is just plain wrong. And I don't see why someone who looks at his porn stuff would also be interested in buying his flowers. There are other, less illegal ways of attracting customers. At the same time, though, ten years is too much. Though he knew the laws. Edited July 10, 2006 by Arbitrary (see edit history)

Well i think it is not true news it will be just a fun...and the thing is other if some one place porn on the site he should be punished coz that person is trying to destroying the cultures and also our new genaration i think if we all will try i know can stop it it but we can decrease it coz "one man can bring a great revolution"

If you all lived in China you would understand why the guy got 10 years. But I'm absolutely sure that there're billions of other illigal porn sites in China. Though I don't think that the news is true(?) I heard nothing about it on TV.One thing that really pisses me off, is that in China, you cannot view free sites such as freewebs, geocities and free blogging sites such as createblog, blogger etc. I understand the reason why, but it still just freaks me out.