City Express
Author: Reporter Lin Lin Editor Xiao Xu
Recently, West Lake police knocked down an online pornographic live broadcast platform. The platform is a one-to-one real-time video live broadcast software called "Tadpole APP". There are hundreds of female anchors in the APP engaged in naked chat live broadcast services.
With the deepening of the "2018 Clean Network" special action and the centralized and unified action of "Thunder No. 5", Xihu District Public Security Bureau has intensified its investigation and punishment of various crimes. In October 2018, the Xihu District Public Security Bureau received a clue of disseminating obscene materials. The West Lake Internet Police Brigade, together with the Municipal Public Security Bureau Internet Police Branch and Cuiyuan, Jiangcun, and Wenxin Police Stations, formed a special case team to carry out investigations. After investigation, it was found that users of the "Tadpole APP" registered and logged in with their mobile phone numbers to become members. On the APP interface, they would see female anchors with revealing clothes and provocative nicknames. After clicking to enter the chat room, they could have one-on-one chats with the female anchors Video chat. The software uses tadpole coins for transactions, and every 1 yuan can be exchanged for 100 tadpole coins, which can be used to pay the live broadcast viewing fee of 300 tadpole coins per minute, and can also be used to buy gifts. When the user is watching the live broadcast, the female anchor will clearly prompt the customer to give gifts worth RMB 98, RMB 131.4, RMB 188, etc., and take off her clothes and start an obscene performance, which is extremely explicit. The special case team further investigated and found that there were two other APPs involved in the case at the same time, sharing data traffic with the Tadpole APP, and being able to watch the real-time performances of female anchors at the same time.
It is too easy to make money from this live broadcast, much easier than doing clothing sales
35-year-old sister Tong (pseudonym) is one of the female anchors of Tadpole APP. Sister Tong has 5 brothers and sisters in her family, and her life is difficult. After graduating from junior high school, she came out to work.
Sister Tong has done a serious job, once worked in clothing sales in Hangzhou, and then returned to her hometown to get married and take care of her children full-time. A few years ago, her husband passed away unexpectedly, and Sister Tong had to raise her children alone. Without financial resources, she began to work as an anchor on various platforms.
In December last year, Sister Tong learned about the Tadpole platform in the anchor exchange group. Sister Tong soon joined the tadpoles, as long as the guests gave gifts, she would broadcast whatever she wanted to watch. 60% of the gift value is her income from Tadpole. Most of the female anchors on the
tadpole APP are born in the 1980s, and the youngest is only 21 years old. Some female anchors have joined for half a year, and their income alone is more than 60,000 yuan.
Maybe the money came too easily, but Sister Tong didn’t cherish it. She didn’t take care of her life well, and she didn’t make any plans for the future. Most of her live broadcast income was squandered by her boyfriend who was 10 years younger than her. When the police went to Sister Tong's house to arrest people, they saw that the room was in chaos, apparently it hadn't been cleaned up for a long time; the 13-year-old child saw his mother was arrested, and his expression was indifferent.
has more than 240,000 registered users, and illegal profits of more than 1.5 million yuan
The main suspect of this platform, Xu, is the legal person of an Internet company in Hangzhou. Since May 2017, he has cooperated with Wenzhou Internet Technology Co., Ltd. to develop and maintain Three video chat software, including Tadpole APP, attracted more live streaming traffic by "changing vests", and recruited nearly a hundred anchors across the country to carry out obscene and pornographic live broadcast services, attracting more than 240,000 registered users and making illegal profits of 1.5 million Yu Yuan, and formed a mature team of platform development and maintenance, promotion and introduction, management audit, and anchor.
On December 12, 2018, the task force dispatched a total of more than 60 police officers, divided into more than 10 groups, to carry out network collection operations in 10 provinces and cities across the country, including Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo, Shandong Tai'an, and Jiangxi Shangrao. Female anchors, development and maintenance personnel, and platform managers are 36 criminal suspects. At present, it has been preliminarily found that the above-mentioned platforms have made a total of more than 1.5 million yuan in profits by providing pornographic live broadcasts. Criminal coercive measures have been taken against 14 criminal suspects suspected of disseminating obscene materials in accordance with the law, and 6 offenders who performed obscene performances were administratively detained and fined.
