{"id":19643,"date":"2025-08-06T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/chinas-cyber-abuse-scandal-is-the-government-unwilling-to-crack-down-on-exploitation-of-women-online\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:37:36","slug":"chinas-cyber-abuse-scandal-is-the-government-unwilling-to-crack-down-on-exploitation-of-women-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/chinas-cyber-abuse-scandal-is-the-government-unwilling-to-crack-down-on-exploitation-of-women-online\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s cyber-abuse scandal: is the government unwilling to crack down on exploitation of women online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretly filmed images of women are spreading online, yet the authorities seem more focused on censorship than punishing the perpetrators, critics say<\/p>\n<p>When Ming* found a hidden camera in her bedroom, she prayed for a reasonable explanation, wondering whether her boyfriend had placed it there to record memories of their \u201chappy life\u201d together. But hope quickly turned to horror. Ming\u2019s boyfriend had been secretly taking sexually exploitative photos of not just Ming and her female friends, but also of other women in other locations, then using AI technology to generate pornographic images of them.<\/p>\n<p>After Ming confronted him, he \u201cbegged for mercy\u201d but became angry when she refused to forgive him, Ming reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctdsb.net\/c1716_202507\/2494998.html\">told<\/a> Chinese news outlet Jimu News.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/06\/china-online-abuse-women-telegram-scandal-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5754af4ac00a91cc637a1f2aa65286d6a8417889\/174_0_4268_3414\/master\/4268.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5c336266c04c2cd4587ba38736eaec76\" title=\"China\u2019s cyber-abuse scandal: is the government unwilling to crack down on exploitation of women online?\" \/>Secretly filmed images of women are spreading online, yet the authorities seem more focused on censorship than punishing the perpetrators, critics say<br \/>\nWhen Ming* found a hidden camera in her bedroom, she prayed for a reasonable explanation, wondering whether her boyfriend had placed it there to record memories of their \u201chappy life\u201d together. But hope quickly turned to horror. Ming\u2019s boyfriend had been secretly taking sexually exploitative photos of not just Ming and her female friends, but also of other women in other locations, then using AI technology to generate pornographic images of them.<br \/>\nAfter Ming confronted him, he \u201cbegged for mercy\u201d but became angry when she refused to forgive him, Ming reportedly told Chinese news outlet Jimu News. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretly filmed images of women are spreading online, yet the authorities seem more focused on censorship than punishing the perpetrators, critics say When Ming* found a hidden camera in her bedroom, she prayed for a reasonable explanation, wondering whether her boyfriend had placed it there to record memories of their \u201chappy life\u201d together. But hope &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/chinas-cyber-abuse-scandal-is-the-government-unwilling-to-crack-down-on-exploitation-of-women-online\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China\u2019s cyber-abuse scandal: is the government unwilling to crack down on exploitation of women online?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}