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The new video-sharing app launched by Twitter is running into some upstart problems as it is being filled with sexually-explicit content. The ease and lack of restrictions on the service, called Vine, allows for racy users to spread porn quickly.
Like with Twitter, users are able to search the platform by hashtags, so technology commentors began realizing the problem when a quick run of the term porn- or a vast array of more specific sexual tags- immediately produces a host of dirty videos.
This new facet of the service strikes at a potentially perilous point for the company, as they are known to be very firm believers in the freedom of the users.
As pointed out by Tech Crunch, Twitter administrators are known for their censorship-free stance and only budge when it is a question of legality. This view is shown in Vine's terms of service, as they do not explicitly ban sexual content.
'You should only provide Content that you are comfortable sharing with others under these Terms,' the rules state. The only function in place right now to regulate the videos is a button where viewers can mark a video as inappropriate.
That said, such a tag will not necessarily remove the video: if a certain- though unknown- number of people mark the video as inappropriate, it will be given a warning before the video, but it will still be allowed to run.
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