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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.
I have a site on Ning that deals with adult lifestyles and education and I have paid Ning each month to host my site from the moment that I created my site. They did not stop from taking my money this month.
They have all of my content and data and block us from getting our code. Were talking about thousands of members submitted photos, videos, blogs, forums, member pages and comments and so much more. We have worked long hours to bring out honest truth about different types of adult lifestyles. We were there for ning when they started and now we are getting a bad rap. Its the adult web sites on Ning that kept it going now that they raised Million of dollars they are trying to clean up their act.
Gina from Ning give us a wonderful Xmas present … We have no site any more and no where to go. Not all adults site on Ning are porn but were all going … what will we start burning books again?
This is what Ning sent back to me when I asked about my content. You tell me if you think this is fair 30 days to find a new home and will they give us back our content and how will we be able to integrate it on another sever? Ning was not free we paid to put our sites there and they welcome all of our adults sites with open arms and now what we got was 30 days and get out without any of our content.. Is this fair????
E-mail back from Ning
December 3, 2008
[The Ning Team - 12/02/2008 06:24 PM]
Regardless of the services you have purchased, if your network is of an adult
nature it will be removed on January 1st, 2009. If you’d like to keep your
network running on the Ning Platform, you’re welcome to make changes so your
network no longer falls into our definition of adult network. This includes
removing any and all adult content from your network.
An adult network includes, but isn’t limited to:
Pornography
Depictions of sexual acts
Sexually explicit or obscene themes
These changes take effect on January 1, 2009, so you’ll need to make these
changes before then.
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