The legal basis is as follows:
Criminal Law
Article 364: The crime of disseminating obscene materials disseminates obscene books, periodicals, videos, audio and video, pictures or other obscene materials, and the circumstances are serious , shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years, criminal detention or public surveillance.
Typical case
A Yixing man was detained for spreading indecent videos
According to netizens, at 5:58 a.m. on January 16, in a shopping mall in Yixing In the shopping group, someone exposed an indecent video of a staff at a certain brand counter in the mall. It was accompanied by some personal information, including a private phone number.
After the incident, Yixing police found the person who posted the indecent content (Xie, from Bengbu, Anhui, born in 1994). Xie was detained for seven days (January 20 to 27) on suspicion of spreading obscene materials and is currently on bail pending trial.
Xie himself also realized the seriousness of the problem and wrote a letter of apology.