Vine begins policing searches

Victor Barreiro Jr.

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Vine attempts to clean up the pornography plaguing its system

VINE TROUBLES. Vine begins cleaning up its content and searches after an influx of porn plagues the app. Screen shot from Apple.

MANILA, Philippines – Following Vine’s launch and its subsequent inundation with pornographic content, the video-sharing application is working on clearing the system of pornography.

Vine’s makers appear to be hard at work policing the system to ensure the issue of pornography doesn’t get out of hand, not only in terms of searchable pornography, but also in highlighting videos. This follows word of pornographic content briefly becoming an editor’s pick on the app, which Twitter, who recently acquired Vine, said was caused by human error.

Apple, which previously noted Vine as an Editor’s Pick application, quietly took Vine off its Editor’s Choice section without offering commentary on the matter.

The Verge writes that some of the searches previously used to search for pornography on the app, such as #porn, now return no results.

Users, however, are becoming more creative. New workaround hashtags to circumvent policiing are being made, creating an uphill battle for the folks at Vine headquarters. – Rappler.com

 

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Victor Barreiro Jr.

Victor Barreiro Jr is part of Rappler's Central Desk. An avid patron of role-playing games and science fiction and fantasy shows, he also yearns to do good in the world, and hopes his work with Rappler helps to increase the good that's out there.