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The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 10:23 PM Mar 2014

Twitter bans porn videos on Vine

Twitter has officially banned pornographic content on Vine, its year-old social-video service. The company announced the changes to its rules and terms of service on Thursday and will begin enforcing them immediately.

Just days after Vine's official launch in January of last year, reports surfaced about the presence of porn on Vine, a service for sharing 6-second long videos on Twitter and with other Vine users. It quickly became a popular spot for short clips of sexually explicit content, some posted by well-known porn stars.

For the past year, there have been no official rules against pornographic videos, though the company worked to keep them out of the public eye by suppressing them in highly visible places like its Editor's Picks and most popular lists. It did raise the minimum age for using Vine from 12 years old to 17 years old. The new rating in Apple's App Store meant Vine carried a disclaimer that warned of "frequent/intense sexual content or nudity."

After the initial flurry of concern, the dark corner of Vine was mostly forgotten about by people who weren't actively seeking out salacious content, at least until last month, when a young man rose to temporary Internet fame when he filmed himself being intimate with a Pop Tart and then a Hot Pocket. He posted the videos to Vine, though they were quickly taken down.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/06/tech/social-media/vine-bans-porn/index.html

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Twitter bans porn videos on Vine (Original Post) The Straight Story Mar 2014 OP
So we better not see any graphic pics of Tsiyu Mar 2014 #1
Aww. So no more Vine After Dark? bigwillq Mar 2014 #2
All those people are mentally ill... penultimate Mar 2014 #3
I remember stumbling on a lot of them, as I was reading tweets from Atlanta during their snow event. jakeXT Mar 2014 #4
I still have never bought hot pockets. xfundy Mar 2014 #5

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
1. So we better not see any graphic pics of
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 10:27 PM
Mar 2014

HotPockets or Poptarts on DU!

BTW I think this is a good call on their part. There's enough awful porn out there to last generations.

xfundy

(5,105 posts)
5. I still have never bought hot pockets.
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 10:45 PM
Mar 2014

But that was the best advertising they could ever get.

"Hungry? Horny? Hot Pockets!"

Sex sells. No matter how gross, sex sells.

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