--- description: Social network says it doesn’t have a problem with sexy videos, but doesn’t want to be the source of them title: Vine Bans Porn on Its Video Service image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c66fe7756917f5c/6986844d810bbb2691c905aa/vine_logo_lrg_green.png?branch=production&width=480&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Vine Bans Users from Sharing Porn by [David Winograd](/author/david-winograd/) ## David Winograd Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 6, 2014 11:26 PM CUT  by [David Winograd](/author/david-winograd/) ## David Winograd Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 6, 2014 11:26 PM CUT Twitter’s social network for videos announced Thursday that users would no longer be able to share sexual content with the video-sharing app. Vine said in a [blog post](http://blog.vine.co/ "undefined") that the change to its terms of service would not affect the vast majority of people that use its video sharing service. “For more than 99 percent of our users, this doesn’t really change anything. For the rest: we don’t have a problem with explicit sexual content on the Internet –– we just prefer not to be the source of it,” the company said. Vine isn’t the first social network to take a stand against porn. Facebook also [prohibits](https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards "undefined") users from sharing explicitly sexual content. Vine’s parent company Twitter has a [policy](https://support.twitter.com/articles/15789-how-to-report-violations "undefined") in place against using pornographic photos as profile, header or background images. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/15001/vine-porn-ban/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/15001/vine-porn-ban/"},"headline":"Vine Bans Users from Sharing Porn","datePublished":"2014-03-06T23:26:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:40.590Z","description":"Social network says it doesn’t have a problem with sexy videos, but doesn’t want to be the source of them","url":"https://time.com/15001/vine-porn-ban/","keywords":["Tech","Social Media","facebook","twitter","Vine","social networks"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c66fe7756917f5c/6986844d810bbb2691c905aa/vine_logo_lrg_green.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Winograd","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/david-winograd/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c66fe7756917f5c/6986844d810bbb2691c905aa/vine_logo_lrg_green.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"vine_logo_lrg_green","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/15001/vine-porn-ban/","name":"Vine Bans Users from Sharing Porn"}}]}] ```