About: Terms of Service. Last Updated: March 11, 2013 Ning, Inc.
(“Ning“, “we” or “us“) is an online service provider that provides a set of services and technology applications that enable users to create their own Networks utilizing our technology platform (the “Ning Platform“). Ning is not involved in the management of Networks on the Ning Platform and is not involved in the decisions relating to the focus of Networks or the Content uploaded or published to Networks using the Ning Platform. These are your Networks and, as a Network Creator, you are responsible for managing them in all respects (including the actions, conduct, and Content of Your Members) in compliance with these Terms of Service.
These Terms of Service contain general terms that apply to all users of the Ning Platform whether they create, join or browse Networks. The Ning Application Developer Terms (the “Other Ning Terms”) are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms of Service. Quick Reference: 1. 2. 3. Ning Product Plans Taxes 4. 5. Ning, YouTube Crack Down on Porn. It’s a bad week for Internet porn, or at least for porn hoping to reach the masses through social networking.
Ning announced Monday that it will discontinue hosting adult-oriented networks in its "Red Light District" as of January 1, and YouTube has begun to implement tighter restrictions on adult videos, it said today on its blog. Ning, which typically allows anyone to create a social network on its platform, says the decision was not a change in its policy or mission. CEO and co-founder Gina Bianchini describes it is a logical step considering all of the problems the porn has caused for the site including low ad revenue, multiple DMCA take-down notices, and an increase in illegal porn sites. “We’re not discontinuing the Red Light District because we no longer believe in the freedom to create your own social network for anything as long as it’s legal. We do. YouTube has apparently also been under pressure to take action against pornography leaking its way onto the site. It's Not Porn, It's Freedom of Expression! - Social network in the ropes, hit by anti-porn zealots.
Ning is a part of OpenSocial, as you might have read time and time again so far.
What you might not have known until now is the set of statistics from Quantcast which point out that Ning's biggest sites are porn related and that most surely got the zealots up in a riot. When I'm thinking of zealots, I don't know why I'm picturing white (or black, but by no means brown) robes, hooded, holding religious symbols above their heads and chanting drearily. But enough about my imagination, back to the porn (oops!). Marc Andreessen, Ning's founder, argues that his social network is not seeing most of its traffic because of pornography but, even if it did, that would not be such big a problem as long as the terms of service aren't broken: "we think a better approach is to let people fundamentally do what they want, as long as it isn't illegal and doesn't otherwise violate our terms of service. " How about it, to porn or not to porn, that is the modern Internet question.