A Chinese e-commerce website has deactivated the account of a Fujian retailer of child-like sex dolls after an effective social media campaign by a rights advocacy group.迷你倉An online vendor was offering silicone dolls resembling pre-teen girls on the retailing platform. The “real-life baby doll” was advertised in children’s clothing and photographed next to children’s toys. It sold wholesale for US$178 per item.DHgate’s Facebook page was flooded with hundreds of messages criticising the sale of the child-like dolls after the New Jersey-based anti-human-trafficking advocacy group Dining for Dignity launched a social media campaign against the product on Friday.By Sunday evening, the silicone product was no longer for sale and the seller’s account had been deactivated.DHgate “is against the selling of products that promote paedophilia”, a company spokesperson told Kelly Master, the founder of Dining for Dignity, in an e-mailed statement on Sunday. “Product listings for ‘child-like sex dolls’ have been removed.”Kelly said in an interview widespread outrage was vital to bringing about the closure of the online store. “I wrote [DHgate] first, they didn’t respond to me,” said Kelly. “They blocked me and removed my comments [on Facebook],self storagebut then they started to get inundated with hundreds and hundreds of comments.”The seller of the dolls, identified as AllanChow89, had been active since 2011, according to his profile on the platform. He had 89 child-like dolls in stock and completed 242 transactions overall, a cached copy of his profile shows.Kelly said she had also received links to the same doll sold on online shopping sites operated by Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company. A search online shows several child-like sex dolls on sale on Taobao, an Alibaba platform. One advertised by a retailer in Qingdao , Shandong province, sells for 90 yuan (HK$115).Kelly is preparing a similar campaign to pressure China’s largest e-commerce company to follow suit and stop selling the dolls.She said she was confident the e-commerce platform would respond to public pressure. “When you have thousands of thousands of people writing on social media, it can impact your sales,” she said.DHgate did not immediately reply to a written request for comment. An Alibaba spokesperson said the company did not allow such products to be sold on its platform. “Should any related listings be found, they will immediately be removed and members penalised,” she said in an e-mailed statement.迷利倉
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