Did Vine Ban Porn Because of Hot Pocket Incident?

Vine, the Twitter-owned mobile video app, has formally banned “explicit sexual content” from being shared in a blog post announcing the change to its Terms of Service. The move arrives a little more than a year after Vine spawned a digital underbelly of looping, six-second snippets of filth — and two weeks after it suspended a user who engaged in some well-publicized and highly indecent activity with a Hot Pocket.

“For more than 99 percent of our users, this doesn’t really change anything,” the statement reads. “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.

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