they had something like 37 million members. WTF?

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Four people have been detained in connection with a sex video purportedly taken inside a Uniqlo fitting room that spread rapidly online, Beijing police said.

They were detained on suspicion of spreading obscene content, according to a police statement late Sunday. Police said they were still investigating the couple who can be seen in the cellphone video apparently having sex in the Japanese retailer's flagship Beijing store.

Uniqlo has denied any involvement in the video which spread widely online last week and gave rise to jokes about fitting rooms becoming the latest make-out spots.

Like Americans, the Chinese have a prudery problem:

In China, people convicted of disseminating obscene books, films, pictures and videos face up to two years' imprisonment, while those who make obscene products for profit face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

The Chinese government is also busy heaving lawyers in jail.

The government propaganda orifice People's Daily thunders that those detained are "troublemakers" who were "polluting the internet" and "disturbing order." Some of these people face decades in prison for their Evil Intertubular Disorder.

The Chinese authorities have ratcheted up their crackdown against human rights lawyers and activists, using draconian state security charges to detain at least three people, Amnesty International said today.

Lawyers Xie Yang, Sui Muqing, and activist Gou Hongguo are being held on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power”, which could carry a prison sentence of up to 15 years.

“The scale and severity of this crackdown is unprecedented. The authorities appear intent on destroying the growing network of human rights lawyers and activists, and on spreading fear among those willing to stand up for human rights.”

The move by the authorities raises fears that many of the 31 lawyers and activists still detained or missing since the crackdown began last Thursday are likely to face similar state security charges.

Nearly 200 individuals have been questioned or detained by police in the nationwide crackdown over the past week.

The crackdown has been accompanied by a smear campaign in state media, with lawyers and activists accused of being part of a criminal operation to “undermine social stability.” The People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s newspaper, has claimed that in order to build a society that uses the law to resolve problems, the police need to “strike hard against illegal lawyers according to the law.”

The Beijing-based Fengrui Law Firm has been singled out as being at the center of a “criminal gang.” The law firm has defended individuals in high-profile human rights cases, including prominent Uighur academic Ilham Tohti, who is currently serving a life prison sentence, and the victims of the 2008 tainted milk powder scandal.

After a week in custody, one of the bad elements has "confessed."

The lawyer provided legal aid to families of children poisoned by milk powder from a powerful dairy firm, and this year defended an 81-year-old writer detained for criticising the ruling Communist party.

Zhou has reportedly not been able to meet with a family-appointed defence attorney. But the official Xinhua news agency said late Saturday that he "admitted guilt," and pleaded for a "second chance."

"Some things about my actions at the law firm were illegal... my mistakes were serious," the report cited Zhou as saying, apparently while in police custody.

What were the crimes of he and the other attorneys?

The detained lawyers "gave interviews to foreign media, spreading opinions attacking the party and the government, slandering the legal system and other such negative views," it added.

Those detained include female lawyer Wang Yu, known for defending poverty-stricken victims of forced demolition, sexual assault, illegal detention and other abuses.

As in America, the Chinese have a problem with their cops shooting people down in the streets:

The activists being held include attorney Xie Yang, who sought compensation for the family of a man shot dead in May by police at a train station in northeast China, sparking an online outcry about violence by law enforcers.

China's courts have a near-100 percent conviction rate. State media said last year that police using torture to extract confessions was "not rare" in the country.

Indefatigable multimedia Chinese activist Wu Gan is meanwhile revolving in and out of the pokey again. His penultimate crime? He "set up a mock grave and shouted." Then it was determined he had allied himself with the roiling snakes-nest of criminal lawyers:

“The police uncovered that Wu Gan, the ‘Super Vulgar Butcher’ leading the charge in many sensitive incidents, was an administrative assistant employed by Zhou Shifeng, the head of the Beijing Fengrui Law Firm. Although he was not a lawyer, he has a special ‘status’ in the firm, and in addition to a monthly salary of more than 10,000 renminbi, he received ‘activity funds.’

Wu Gan is regularly thrown in the slammer on such charges as "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." This involves activities like traveling to "Jiangxi to join a protest by four lawyers over a rape and murder case, which allegedly involved the torture and jailing of four innocent people." He first became an Agent of Evil when "in 2009 he reached out to meet Deng Yujiao, a pedicurist who was arrested on murder charges for stabbing to death a government official who was trying to molest her. The outrage generated online turned her case into a national cause celebre and she was eventually released."