Vine has updated its Terms & Conditions and they no longer allow users to post sexual content.
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Too bad. We’d featured some of the wildest over on Queerpop.
Not surprising though. I wonder when Yahoo will start tightening the screws on tumblr?
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[QUOTE=David K.;146281]Too bad. We’d featured some of the wildest over on Queerpop.
Not surprising though. I wonder when Yahoo will start tightening the screws on tumblr?[/QUOTE]
Yes too bad indeed, cause I featured some hot ones as well…
To be honest, I was a little bit surprised since Vine is owned by Twitter and Twitter does allow porn.
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Isn’t this always the way though? Company starts off allowing it, then they get some good numbers and start cracking down, restricting, limiting and removing. The question is how does this potentially harm a site in the long run. I remember Yahoo! making the decision to remove adult groups and make them almost impossible to find or access, and within a year it was out of the running as one of the primary SE’s.
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It’s not such a bad thing though. Vine has just been another drain offering free porn. But something else will pop up. I’m kind of surprised I haven’t seen a porn-based Vine-type service. Maybe they already exist.
The issue is Apple won’t allow an adult app on their service. So nobody can write a porn app. Vine was not billed as an adult service they just had a “mature” component.
The only way to have an adult app on iPhone is to write one for jailbroken devices.
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Yeah, I read that about Apple as well.
Instagram also doesn’t allow adult content, which is owned by Facebook I believe, so perhaps Twitter wants a “clean” sharing site to compete with Facebook.
The one thing that I was impressed with is that Vine’s reporting services does not include an automatic account deletion like Flicker. Vine says that all reports will be reviewed by hand, and if true, I think that’s very fair and decent.
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Tumblr and Twitter both have porn on them and they have Apple apps. Why do they treat Vine differently?
Kevin.
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Yes, what Kevin said.
DK
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I think it’s their own decision and it has nothing to do with Apple’s policy.
At the time their apps for iOS got approved, there was probably no (or very little) adult content on Twitter and Vine and once they become big, Apple will never delete them from the app store. Imagine what happened if Apples decided to no longer allow a Twitter app. A big part of their customers would move to Android or other competitors, where they could still use Twitter on their smartphones.
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No doubt Vine is grooming themselves in the hopes of being bought out for big money.
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Some great points.
I take this as good news, and yes, it would be great if Tumblr were next. Glad to get those eyeballs back to our sites where we can monetize the traffic. its frightning how many people I talk to say they use tumblr almost exclusively for free porn these days.
As far as apple and such goes, they dont allow apps that are specifically for adult entertainment. The differnce to keep in mind is that apps like twitter, vine, etc… as well as the dating apps that allow you to send private pics or even have private galleries are billed as services. Apple is hands off the content, so long as the use intent isnt overtly adult.
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Vine is owned by Twitter so unless Twitter plans on selling Vine I’m not sure this will happen. Especially seeing as Twitter just went public it would make more sense if they started buying up other products like Facebook.
Kevin.
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Stranger things have happened.
[QUOTE=mountequinox;146374]Vine is owned by Twitter so unless Twitter plans on selling Vine I’m not sure this will happen. Especially seeing as Twitter just went public it would make more sense if they started buying up other products like Facebook.
Kevin.[/QUOTE]
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agreed there is still “Adult” on TWITTER , I like the ease of “quick” take/upload. ( interpreted: I speak fluent PIC! , TEXT is a second language! 
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