In the latest development in today's pornography on Vine saga, Twitter's video-sharing app now blocks many searches for pornographic terms. Trying to search for the #porn hashtag (and other terms such as #sex, #boobs, and #booty) brings up no results at this time. However, there are still numerous workarounds — #pornvine is still allowed, for example, as is #nsfw. Users can also still tag Vines with pornographic hashtags, and other users can simply tap on those tags to pull up a feed of videos just like the previous search would have done. However, what's important to note here is that it seems Vine has already begun the process of clearing out and hiding NSFW material — while they will likely never be able to completely rid the service of it, it sounds like it'll at least take a bit more work.
Vine begins censoring searches, weeds out #porn and more
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BUT HOW WILL I FAP TO 6 SECOND LOOPING VIDEOS NOW?
By tehh4ck3r on 01.28.13 4:05pm
Don’t say fap
By Mcclain82 on 01.28.13 10:06pm
Censorship is a bitch
By iMikeZero on 01.28.13 4:06pm
Except I’m pretty sure I can tell what the header image was originally… Unless it’s my imagination…
By VoxMediaUser604384 on 01.28.13 4:09pm
Cannot unsee! Damn you.
By jmlares on 01.28.13 4:20pm
It’s more evident as the front page thumbnail.
By VoxMediaUser604384 on 01.28.13 4:22pm
I thought it was just my dieu mind
By BriWM on 01.28.13 4:51pm
Dirty even.
By BriWM on 01.28.13 4:51pm
Now this is the proper course of action. Twitter must take responsibility for their own service, and Apple should be left out of this discussion entirely. Yes, they are inconsistent, and no they shouldn’t have banned 500px, but leave them alone. Let Twitter take care of this themselves.
By steve19137 on 01.28.13 4:06pm
I fully agree. Instead of swinging the hammer around, there needs to be more of a dialogue between Apple and developers.
By drwitwicki on 01.28.13 4:16pm
Honestly, I’m not sure this is the right answer either. I mean, I don’t even use Vine, and I definitely wouldn’t use it for porn, but I’m not sure why they don’t just do what Tumblr does: give you the option to mark your feed (or even better yet, specific posts) as NSFW. If people are enthusiastic about the service (even if used for something like this) then that’s a good thing, they just need to clean up the X-rated stuff so it doesn’t show to people who don’t actually want to see it.
By jhoff80 on 01.28.13 4:06pm
500px did that and Apple still booted them. It’s why censorship is a real bitch.
By dagamer34 on 01.28.13 4:21pm
This! I had to read the news twice and I am still not sure why they would censor all NSFW content. Wasn’t the complaint just that fleshy stuff showed up in John Does’ streams?!
Similar note: Who decides where art stops and porn begins?
By Aeon on 01.28.13 4:25pm
Potter Stewart.
By dcormier on 01.28.13 4:56pm
Regarding your last question, just because it’s art, doesn’t mean it’s SFW. But you do have a point, regardless.
By brandongoeszoom on 01.28.13 7:20pm
Following in the footsteps of Instagram, no surprises here.
By rkrishnakumar on 01.28.13 4:07pm
“Vine begins censoring searches, weeds out #porn and more”
Haha, plant puns!
By Alex Thompson on 01.28.13 4:07pm
The number of man sausages was too damn high.
By mudrinic on 01.28.13 4:08pm
Can it be storystream tiem now?
By chilblane on 01.28.13 4:09pm
Definitely. Stay tuned.
By NathanIngraham on 01.28.13 4:17pm
How does one… stop porn?
By JimboLodisC on 01.28.13 4:13pm
Can anyone explain why its an issue for Vine but not Twitter and Instagram?
By BranFlake30 on 01.28.13 4:24pm
Porny @porntweet 12m
“And he tore of her little dress exposing her in all of her beauty. She smiled back with the most inviting grin a mad had ever seen and her b”
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By Aeon on 01.28.13 4:33pm
Mr. Ingraham! #booty? That salty talk has no place on a respectable website such as this one. For shame!
By gogadgetgo on 01.28.13 4:31pm
So now people will just make their own code hashtags. #pr0n anyone?
By cjschris on 01.28.13 4:33pm