Will you be caught by the Internet police for browsing inappropriate content?

Browsing inappropriate content will not be caught by the Internet police.

However, if you browse and disseminate inappropriate content, you will be arrested by the Internet police, because it violates Article 364, paragraph 1, of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China. Dissemination of obscene materials, if the circumstances are serious, constitutes The crime of spreading obscene materials. Spam of pornographic text messages belongs to the nature of spreading obscene materials. If the circumstances are serious, it constitutes a crime. Article 68 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law" stipulates: "Whoever produces, transports, reproduces, sells, or rents obscene books, pictures, films, audio-visual products and other obscene materials, or uses computer information networks, telephones, and other communication tools to spread obscene information. A person may be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and may be fined not more than 3,000 yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he may be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan.

Legal Basis

《 Article 364 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China: The crime of disseminating obscene materials. Whoever disseminates obscene books, periodicals, videos, audio and video, pictures or other obscene materials, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years, criminal detention or surveillance. The crime of organizing the broadcast of obscene audio and video products. Whoever organizes the broadcast of obscene movies, videos and other audio and video products shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years and shall also be fined. Those who produce and copy obscene films, videos and other audio and video products shall be severely punished in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2. Those who disseminate obscene materials to minors under the age of 18 shall be severely punished.

《 Article 68 of the Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China: Produce, transport, copy, sell, rent obscene books, pictures, films, audio-visual products and other obscene materials or use computer information networks, telephones and other communication tools Those who spread obscene information shall be detained for not less than ten days but not more than fifteen days, and may also be fined not more than three thousand yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan.