Vine Adopts Unenforceable Age Rating Like Any Self-Respecting Purveyor of Porn

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vine 17If you’ve been following the brief history of Twitter’s video-sharing app Vine, you may know that there are those who think the service has a porn problem, those who think it doesn’t and at least one sober soul who sees clearly enough to know that the problem doesn’t belong to Vine, but rather, to humankind.

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Whatever Vine does or doesn’t have, it also has this: As of a new update released today, Vine has a 17+ rating from Apple, as well as a feature that allows you to block users, and the (new) ability to share videos to Facebook and Twitter.

Of course, while the new age-rating formally prohibits iPhone users under the age of 17 from downloading the app, adolescents have been lying about their ages to ogle naked bodies since before the great sex-show known as the Internet was a twinkle in the eye.

Vine Adopts Unenforceable Age Rating Like Any Self-Respecting Purveyor of Porn