Alipay Wants You to Stop Posting Porn Pics, Selling Sex

On November 24, Alipay launched a new function on its mobile app that allows users to create and join online groups.

But less than a week into the feature's launch, people are (allegedly) already using it to post sexually suggestive photos. Obviously Alibaba is not happy about it.

The function is intended to be tailored towards common interests of users, like those who want to create a community for pet owners or fitness fanatics. But two groups — “White Collar Diary" and "Campus Diary" — have stirred up quite a bit of controversy for promoting materialism and advertising sex.

According to People's Daily, posts in the latter group "were sexually suggestive, featuring scantily clad women and captions professing that the subject was searching for a sex partner."

Only female users are allowed to post photos in the 6.7 million person group, and users are required to earn a high credit score of at least 750 points before being allowed to comment.

Screenshots circulated online showing high credit users leaving flirty comments on photos.

Posts to both the "White Collar Diary" and "Campus Diary" groups.

In light of the controversy, the online payment app has been accused of turning into an "online brothel" or "booty call app."

Following the scandal, an Alipay employee told media that the company is beefing up supervision over pornographic posts and will ban violators. The two groups in question have also been removed.Two groups removed.

A search for "White Collar Diary" and "Campus Diary" show no results for the controversial groups.

The feature is currently in its trial phase and is available to 450 million users.

[Images via People's Daily]

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