On Sunday, a number of news outlets ran stories covering the rise of easily-accessible pornography on the new video sharing app Vine, causing a firestorm of debate online. The New York Times' Nick Bilton tweeted that pornographic material was discoverable thanks to simple hashtags such as #porn.
But the truth is that Vine doesn't have a problem with porn, at least not one isn't shared by any other social media app. Apple has a problem — its App Store's puritanical, unevenly-enforced policies for adult content. Vine is just today's example.
The Twitter-owned app and service launched last week to much fanfare, mostly due to its ingenious editing functions which allow users to stop and start a video recording. Vine is also notable as...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/27/3922500/apple-has-a-porn-problem-and-its-about-to-get-worse
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