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Sex141 is the most active information network in Hong Kong for sex workers, established in 2002 as an advertising platform. Although two generations of its supposed principals were arrested and tried, it continued to enjoy a near-monopoly of the online Hong Kong sex trade. Just before it was shut down in December 2013, it ranked as the 105th most visited website in Hong Kong according to Alexa. In December 2013, the site was successfully taken down (for about two weeks) after the Hong Kong police conducted raids that they claim disabled the nerve centre of the illegal operations of the syndicate behind it. == Introduction == Sex141 was founded in 2002 by a HKUST graduate, Chan Sai-ngan (陳世雁), and Cheung Ming-man (張明文), to offer on-line advertising to sex workers.〔〔 The site is named for "one for one" girls – prostitutes working out of a private apartment in order to evade Hong Kong's "vice establishment" law. In 2005, the two programmers who created the site were convicted of one count each of "conspiring to live off the earnings of prostitution arising from the ads that appeared on their website".〔 They were each fined $100,000 and given a suspended prison sentence of eight months.〔〔 The site was taken over by former University of Hong Kong student Pang Man-wai (彭文偉)〔 and Yan Guobing/Yim Kwok-bun (嚴國彬), who both commenced pimping to increase revenues. Both were eventually arrested in 2007 and sentenced to imprisonment for two to two and a half years.〔 In 2006 the owners relocated its web server to the United States. After the second generation at the helm of the site were arrested, websites continued to operate, further expanding into directories for Macau, Taiwan, and Thailand using the Nightlife141.com domain name.〔〔 ''Apple Daily'' reported that an unnamed US official had privately named this site fuelling prostitution, endangering Asia.〔 ''Time Out'' described the site as "Wikipedia for whoremongers",〔 and records it as the 36th most popular website in Hong Kong at one time.〔 Until the site was shut down by the authorities in early December 2013,〔 it enjoyed a near-monopoly of the local on-line sex industry. In July 2013, Sex141 was ranked 126th busiest website in Hong Kong, while its two closest competitors, Miss148.com and 161Sex.com, were respectively ranked 1,088th and 1,638th.〔 In December 2013, New Territories South Police shut down Sex141 and claimed a victory in neutralising the vice ring that was behind the website. During raids on 38 locations in the territory, 114 people, including the alleged mastermind and his wife, were arrested.〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sex141」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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