Vine, the new app from Twitter that lets you edit and share six-second videos, already has a number of users posting graphic sexual content.
Vine lets you explore video categories with a hashtag, and a few quick searches for #sex, #porn, and some others that we'd prefer not to write down here show a number of graphic videos that feature male genitalia and recordings of pornographic videos streaming on laptops.
That's just scratching the surface of the graphic content we've seen on Vine so far.
The Vine app allows users to flag videos as inappropriate. If a post is flagged, you get a warning before you tap the video to view it. But many graphic videos are still slipping through.
According to Vine's terms of service, users are responsible for the content they post. However, the terms make no mention of graphic and/or sexual content. Here's a snippet from Vine's ToS:
You are responsible for your use of the Services, for any Content you post to the Services, and for any consequences thereof. The Content you submit, post, or display will be able to be viewed by other users of the Services and through third party services and websites. You should only provide Content that you are comfortable sharing with others under these Terms.
Still, Apple has a strict policy that blocks apps with graphic sexual content. As recently as last week, Apple pulled a photo-sharing app called 500px because it supposedly made it easy to find nude photos. Apple pulled another video-sharing app called Viddy about a year ago because the app featured a lot of lewd content.
We've reached out to Twitter and will update as soon as someone gets back to us.
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