Violation Information Types

Here you can learn about the general definitions of various types of violation information and related reference regulations

General Rules

According to relevant laws and regulations and the Vocu Service Agreement, you may not use Vocu-related services to create, copy, publish, or disseminate information containing the following content: (1) Content that opposes the basic principles established by the Constitution. (2) Content that endangers national security, leaks state secrets, subverts state power, or undermines national unity. (3) Content that damages national honor and interests. (4) Content that incites ethnic hatred or discrimination and undermines ethnic unity. (5) Content that undermines national religious policies and promotes cults and feudal superstitions. (6) Content that spreads rumors, disrupts social order, and undermines social stability. (7) Content that spreads obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, murder, terror, or incites crime. (8) Content that insults or slanders others and infringes upon others' legitimate rights and interests. (9) Content that contains other content prohibited by laws and administrative regulations.

Some Violation Types

Some violation types are described as follows:

Pornographic and Vulgar Content

Including but not limited to information containing the following violations:

• Disseminating obscene and pornographic content, including but not limited to soliciting prostitution, seeking one-night stands, sexual partners, etc.

• Sending erotic texts, erotic videos, erotic comics for pornographic purposes, but not limited to the above forms.

• Long-term sending of pornographic borderline and sexually suggestive information to attract users or conduct pornographic resource transactions.

• Directly or implicitly depicting sexual behavior, provocative or insulting content, or describing sexual behavior, sexual processes, and sexual methods with sexually suggestive or sexually provocative language.

• Disseminating illegal sexual drugs, sexual health products, sexual supplies, and sexually transmitted disease treatment marketing information and other related content.

• Publishing pornographic content and content that harms social morals and ethics that is prohibited by relevant departments in text, audio, and video formats. Low-quality content clearly defined in the "National Special Action Plan to Clean Up Vulgar Content on the Internet": (1) Content that explicitly or implicitly depicts sexual behavior, causes sexual associations, or is provocative or insulting. (2) Direct exposure and description of sexual parts of the human body. (3) Description of sexual behavior, sexual processes, and sexual methods, or language with sexual implications or sexual provocation. (4) Content describing or exposing sexual parts, or content with only minimal covering. (5) Content where the whole body or private parts are unclothed, with only limbs covering private parts. (6) Content that violates personal privacy such as wardrobe malfunctions, voyeurism, and exposure. (7) Using provocative titles to attract clicks. (8) Pornographic and vulgar novels, audio and video content prohibited by relevant departments, including edited segments of some movies. (9) Improper dating information such as one-night stands, wife swapping, SM, etc. (10) Erotic anime. (11) Content promoting bloody violence, malicious abuse, and insults to others. (12) Illegal "sexual medicine" advertisements and sexually transmitted disease treatment advertisements. (13) Maliciously spreading others' private information without their permission or using "human flesh search."

Related laws and regulations reference: "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China," "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China," "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Maintaining Internet Security."

Violent and Bloody Content

Including but not limited to information containing the following violations:

• Sending information of organized crime nature such as hiring killers, seeking revenge for others, inciting suicide, debt collection, etc.; hiring or inducing others to engage in terrorist, violent activities; forming gangs, recruiting members, and content that poses potential harm to social order.

• Selling replica guns, bows and arrows, controlled knives, air guns, and other lethal weapons without qualification.

• Content describing real weapons for the purpose of encouraging illegal or reckless use.

• Spreading real images of people or animals being killed, disabled, shot, stabbed, tortured, and other injury situations.

• Content depicting violence or child abuse.

• Disturbing violent content such as drug use, self-harm, and self-mutilation.

• Bloody content that causes sensory discomfort such as accident scenes, suicide scenes, experimental dissections, etc.

Related laws and regulations reference: "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China," "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China."

Gambling Content

Including but not limited to information containing the following violations:

• Setting up lottery platforms, sports betting, and gambling trading platforms.

• Engaging in lottery sales or operating gambling-related card games without license.

• Publishing content about organizing crowd gambling, selling gambling equipment, teaching gambling (cheating) skills, methods, and techniques, conducting gambling activities, etc.

• Providing technical services for gambling activities/websites, including but not limited to providing traffic diversion, advertising promotion, website code for gambling websites, etc.

Related laws and regulations reference: "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China," "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China," "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Maintaining Internet Security."

Content Harmful to Network Security

Including but not limited to information containing the following violations:

• Sending viruses, files, computer code, or programs that may cause damage or interruption to users' normal operations.

• Using network technical means or sharing network technical means to conduct illegal criminal activities that disrupt social security, steal others' information/illegal websites, including hacker, trojan, Freegate, VPN browsers, eavesdropping and other information.

• Fake base stations, call bombing, and black card sales information.

Related laws and regulations reference: "Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China," "Administrative Measures for International Internet Security Protection of Computer Information Networks," "Administrative Measures for International Internet Connection of China's Public Computer Internet," "Administrative Measures for International Communication Gateway Bureaus," "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China," "Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Criminal Cases of Disrupting Radio Communication Management Order," "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China," "Opinions on Handling Cases of Illegal Production, Sale and Use of 'Fake Base Station' Equipment in Accordance with Law."

Illegal Business Operations

Including but not limited to information containing the following violations:

• Illegal distribution, illegal fundraising, and illegal lending activities.

• Publishing, disseminating, or engaging in related business activities without obtaining legal permits or licenses, prior administrative permits, or not meeting regulatory requirements, including but not limited to illegally publishing drug or medical device promotional content, illegally publishing paid consulting content for securities or futures investments, and illegally publishing tobacco promotional content.

• Participating in, encouraging, promoting, or inducing others to exclude normal commercial competition in any form, or facilitating the dissemination of such behaviors.

• Other illegal business operations.

Related laws and regulations reference: "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China," "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China," "Telecommunications Regulations," "Anti-Unfair Competition Law of the People's Republic of China," "Tobacco Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China," "Implementation Regulations of the Tobacco Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China."

Fraudulent Content

Including but not limited to information containing the following violations:

• Using website links to prompt false lottery information, tempting users with prize money/prize winning information, etc.

• Publishing phishing website information, forging legitimate websites, using similar URL formats to steal users' relevant information, luring users into being deceived and suffering losses.

• Introducing, explaining, analyzing, promoting, and supporting virtual currencies officially recognized as online pyramid schemes.

• Behaviors aimed at illegal possession, using fabricated facts or concealing truth to defraud large amounts of public or private property.

• Information about pyramid schemes, telecommunications fraud, etc.

• False financial investments, false credit card processing, online gambling scams, etc.

• Using fake transactions, dating scams (pig butchering), part-time order brushing and other means to defraud others' property online.

Related laws and regulations reference: "Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Fraud," "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China," "Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China," "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Maintaining Internet Security."

Infringing Content

Including but not limited to information containing the following violations:

• Online game-related information such as game cheats and private servers;

• Unauthorized use of others' registered enterprise names or trademarks, infringing others' exclusive rights to enterprise names and trademarks;

• Unauthorized use of others' names and avatars, infringing others' legitimate rights such as reputation rights and portrait rights.

• Publishing others' ID numbers, photos and other personal privacy materials without authorization, infringing others' legitimate rights and interests such as portrait rights and privacy rights.

• Fabricating facts to publicly defame others' character, or damaging others' reputation through insults, slander and other means.

• Sending enterprise business secrets without authorization, infringing enterprises' legitimate rights and interests.

Related laws and regulations reference: "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China," "Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China," "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Maintaining Internet Security."