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Looks like adult/porn is going to have a tough time finding easy nests on successful services on the web. Right after FCC talked of making the internet porn free, Ning responded by pulling down adult networks off its platform and now its YouTube. The online video giant has decided to pull curtains on the explicit content (porn) that swarms its platform. The blog entry reads:

Demotion of sexually suggestive content and profanity – Videos that are considered sexually suggestive, or that contain profanity, will be algorithmically demoted on our ‘Most Viewed,’ ‘Top Favorited,’ and other browse pages. The classification of these types of videos is based on a number of factors, including video content and descriptions. In testing, we’ve found that out of the thousands of videos on these pages, only several each day are automatically demoted for being too graphic or explicit. However, those videos are often the ones which end up being repeatedly flagged by the community as being inappropriate.