Chinese media said more than 100,000 were using Telegram to view and post pictures taken without consent
Anger is growing on Chinese social media after news reports revealed the existence of online groups, said to involve hundreds of thousands of Chinese men, which shared photographs of women, including sexually explicit ones, taken without their consent.
The Chinese newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily published a report last week about a group on the encrypted messaging app Telegram called “MaskPark tree hole forum”. It said it had more than 100,000 members and was “comprised entirely of Chinese men”.
Men reportedly shared sexually explicit images of women either in intimate settings or with so-called “pinhole cameras” that can be hidden in everyday items such as plug sockets and shoes.
The scandal has been compared to South Korea’s “Nth Room” case, in which women were blackmailed into sharing sexually explicit photographs of themselves with members of a Telegram group.
