China will pay you $86,000 to snitch on porn watchers, sharers
By Rachelle Bergstein - The New York Post
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Surfing for smut in China just got quite a bit more, well, lucrative.
The Chinese government is offering big payouts to people who snitch on porno. As of this month, the country’s heavy-hitting anti-porn task force is offering up the US equivalent of $86,000 — almost exactly the average annual salary there — to anyone who reports on NSFW content.
Chinese authorities have been using this tattletale tactic successfully — offering cash to ensure a cleaner internet — since 2009. But this latest price hike is serious, effectively doubling the reward to vigilantes, according to Tech in Asia.
China’s ongoing campaign against web smut, called “Clean Up the Pornographic, Strike the Illegal,” has serious consequences for anyone found guilty of watching, sharing or creating erotic material.
While watchdogs get cash, would-be pornographers are being smacked with serious jail time.
And it’s not just adult videos that are getting citizens in trouble. As Dazed reports, a writer of homoerotic stories who called himself Tianyi got nabbed last month and received a hefty 10-year prison sentence.
