Is it illegal to read little yellow books online?

Legal analysis: the law only stipulates that it is not allowed to sell, spread or copy. And it depends. The public security organs only punish the organizers. Ordinary spectators will not be punished, but sometimes they will be given public security warnings or fines.

Legal basis: Article 363 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that anyone who makes, copies, publishes, sells or disseminates obscene articles for profit shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated. Whoever provides a book number for others and publishes obscene books and periodicals shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or only be fined; Whoever knowingly publishes obscene books and periodicals and provides the ISBN shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Article 364 Whoever disseminates obscene books, periodicals, movies, audio-visual recordings, pictures or other obscene articles, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years, criminal detention or public surveillance. Whoever commits this crime shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or only be fined. If a unit commits this crime, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of this crime committed by natural persons. It should be noted that when establishing the crime of publishing obscene books and periodicals by providing ISBN for others, we should grasp the following aspects: First, it constitutes the crime of publishing obscene books and periodicals by providing ISBN for others, and it is not implemented under the premise of violating the relevant national laws and regulations on book and periodical publishing; Second, the subjective aspect of this crime is negligence, so we should pay special attention to this; Third, the subject of this crime is the general subject, often the managers or units of the press and publication department.