Service Scribd, introduces a ban on the publication of porn material

TechCrunch , a Scribd service, also called “YouTube for Documents,” reports on an interesting undertaking on its blog that it will begin removing all pornographic material from the site on May 21.

Over the next month, we will update the “ Terms of Service ”, where we prohibit the downloading of pornographic documents and images. It is absolutely clear that limiting the pornographic content of the Scribd platform will be useful for all users of the site - teachers, parents, students and publishers. Starting today, a one-week grace period has been given to allow users and adult content lovers to download it to their computer before it can be removed from the site.

It became curious, was it really that the "Terms of Service" did not spell out a ban on the publication of porn content? I looked, there is such an item:

8.4. post, upload, or distribute any User Content or other content that is unlawful or that a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive, indecent, pornographic , invasive of another's privacy, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.

Then it becomes even more interesting what will be changed there, which will force users to refuse to receive small traffic.

Scribd is the brainchild of a business incubator: YCombinator, since the launch in March 2007, the site has had impressive growth, and at the moment, 17 million visitors visit the service monthly. In addition, recently added new features, including APIs and instead of FlashPaper added document viewing service iPaper, with which the authors could make money. The site has already had claims from NSFW that it receives a significant portion of the traffic from pornographic and pirated materials. The group “for adults” is one of the largest and most active on the site.



Six months after the launch of Scribd, CenterNetworks conducted a mini-study in which it found that the most popular search queries on the service were:

* how to eat pussy
* how to make lsd
* kamasutra
* eating pussy

In the process of studying the issue, I noticed that many groups have either been deleted or closed for viewing by unregistered users.

TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid argues:

Should we expect a decrease in traffic after tough measures? Unlikely. Pornography may have helped Scribd pick up pace in its infancy, but the site has long proven to be a blogging tool and a document repository.

via The Social Trend