Ning is banning adult social networking websites

Ning has announced that it will shut down its adult content websites and on January 1 will formally ban it. There's no more room for 'adult webmasters' on build-your-own social network service Ning, according to a post on the company blog.

'We are exploring ways for adult networks that will no longer be available on Ning to export their content in addition to their members,' the post by CEO Gina Bianchini read.

Advertisers don't like it, Bianchini said. 'Our ad partners aren't big fans of the adult networks and therefore require us to identify adult networks or risk our healthy advertising revenue,' she explained. 'We don't want to be in the policing business and, unchecked, that's where this is heading.'

And if legal adult-content networks are allowed, the illegal ones invariably weasel their way in, Bianchini said, and that means more work for a small team. The number of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices is also higher for adult networks: 'Compared to our other social networks on the Ning Platform, the additional work created by adult networks alleged to have violated the copyrights of others is enough for us to discontinue adult networks in favor of investing time and energy in growing the Ning Platform from here,' Bianchini wrote.

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