Comments on: Andreessen Responds On Ning Porn: It’s About Being Pro-Freedom

By: Ning Exposed - Tech Company Ning Scams its Clients | Charting Stocks

Ning Exposed - Tech Company Ning Scams its Clients | Charting Stocks — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:35:46 +0000

[...] is quite a change from a company who’s co-founder Marc Andreessen was quoted only a few months earlier [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:47:51 +0000

I am a developer & programmer who has tried many of these social platforms.

SocialGo definitely does it better than Ning. However your social network (and business) is completely at the mercy of whether these companies stay in business.

If you want to host your own social network, have unlimited flexibility in terms of customization, and want support for OpenID then take a look at PHPfox at the other end of the spectrum : http://www.bran...ialnetworks.com

By: The Ning Exodus Begins: Adult Networks, It’s Time To GTFO | Fidicaro.net

The Ning Exodus Begins: Adult Networks, It’s Time To GTFO | Fidicaro.net — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:28:25 +0000

[...] reason Ning is shutting down adult sites despite the fact that cofounder Marc Andreessen thinks Ning should “let people fundamentally do what they [...]

By: The Ning Exodus Begins: Adult Networks, It’s Time To GTFO

The Ning Exodus Begins: Adult Networks, It’s Time To GTFO — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:50:15 +0000

[...] reason Ning is shutting down adult sites despite the fact that cofounder Marc Andreessen thinks Ning should “let people fundamentally do what they [...]

By: What Exactly Is Adult Content? Google Forces Ning Onto A Slippery Slope. | American News World - News And Technology

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:09:11 +0000

[...] Tuesday Ning changed its long standing policy on allowing networks that show pornography and adult material. “Adult social networks don’t [...]

By: What Exactly Is Adult Content? Google Forces Ning Onto A Slippery Slope.

What Exactly Is Adult Content? Google Forces Ning Onto A Slippery Slope. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:58:32 +0000

[...] Tuesday Ning changed its long standing policy on allowing networks that show pornography and adult material. “Adult social networks don’t [...]

By: Ning shutting down all adult social networks | EroEvo

Ning shutting down all adult social networks | EroEvo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:57:53 +0000

[...] announced that it will no longer allow porn on its network. This is after a contradictory statement from founder Marc Andreesen himself about a year ago that Ning is firm on its “pro-freedom” stance towards [...]

By: Local community networks with Ning | DavePress

Local community networks with Ning | DavePress — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:47:36 +0000

[...] I’ve always been a little uncertain of Ning, the service that allows you to create your own social networks. I’m not sure why: possibly a comination of them looking rather samey (certainly in the early days), and being – to me – a little unintuitive to use. Plus there’s always been the fact that you share a service with a bunch of porn barons. [...]

By: williepr

williepr — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:23:47 +0000

It’s now Sept 1, 2008 and I tuned into this link thinking it was current. But since I am here and if anyone ever sees this then my comment on this porn question is this, I have had my fill of those who feel its there duty to remove that which I want to see. Its the nut jobs of the moral majority, you know the ones who violate every attribute they claim to hold up then cry while confessing and hope the other nuts give in and pardon them as if that had any meaning. They obviously don’t believe their own rhetoric or they would live as if they were really afraid of not going to heaven. So they can lie, cheat and steal but suck money out of others and make an easy living, do as they wish in private and don’t much care secretly since they know there is no consequence to any of it. The lemmings who follow feel more pious if they go out and bring Christ to the world and unasked at that. They and their views are no more important than any other and they sure spend a large amount of time thinking about on line sex, if normal don’t you forget about what you don’t like? If normal do yoiu spend all your timr thinking about people or places or even food that you hate? Of course not but then most of us are normal. Needing to havfe approval by some mysterious force for every action you take is rediculous. Thanking some invisible source for everything you have and do, eat, but not every breath and that is far more important and other than Martin Luther do they each says thanks for evfery bowel movement, orgasm, or pee they take too? So why76 the thanks when you eat but not eliminate? People get up early to study this day after day after day. Accept it and live your life. Does it not seem odd that whatever this god business is about at its head is something with an ego so huge it demands thanks for everything? Sounds silly to me. If he made us, leave instructions and back off, you must have other things to do. Try creating tolerance, lack of racist thinking, and end to the horrible things done to children every day, the hunger the fires, being blown up. No that we get responsibility for. But he gets it for the eats. Nice work if you can get it. And while far from finished therein is our lesson for today. It ends with give me a break. Life ends and this makes you think it does not, well that was fine and its also a great way to control others especially women, notice the respect god has everyone paying to them, hey you females you do the shit work and do as you are told, by the males. And they say there is no proof that man made this up! All the way from the USA.

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Ning toujours en pleine croissance — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:50:57 +0000

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Ning toujours en pleine croissance | Sunflower Field Maintenant — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:35:35 +0000

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By: Jason B.

Jason B. — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:09:32 +0000

Tom H. Said…
“It means you opposed the exploitation of women and children.”

Oh come on. I’m sure there’s exploitation in the porn business just like every other damn business, but if you think that any more than a token amount of the people making adult films are drug addled women, you’re just buying the b/s put forth by Focus on the Family and others in the fund raising business. Porn is a product like any other, and it will be around a lot longer than the hypocritical morality police filling your head with nonsense.

Oh, and thanks for tossing in the references to exploitation of children and sex abuse… topics with have absolutely nothing to do with the commercial adult film industry. When you can’t win an argument on the merits, make sure you spit out a couple of bromides about “protecting the children.”

Sex is enjoyable and porn can be fun. Get over it already.

By: Shubie Rockefeller

Shubie Rockefeller — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:27:57 +0000

Good porning everbody.

By: 42mb.com

42mb.com — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:59:24 +0000

I think he is right, no doubt this industries need recognition from ICANN too like for xxx tld.

By: Tom H.

Tom H. — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:49:40 +0000

For those of you that think porn is a free act of expressing yourself, you are seriously ignorant about the sex trade. Many, Many porn “actresses” are drug addicted and abused women working under duress.

Taking a stand against porn is not equatable to taking a stand against religion or taxes. It’s not comparable to limiting someone’s opinion on politics. It doesn’t mean you’re a zealot.

It means you opposed the exploitation of women and children.

Selling it, servicing the industry, and supporting those who promote the degradation and enslavement of women and children is despicable. These people rarely have the ability or chance to say no.

You want to stand up for freedom? Then stand up and say not to the peddlers of child sex and abuse.

Deny it if you want, but visualization inevitably leads to actualization. Porn is the the visual gateway for many sexual predators.

This has nothing to do with religion or free speech.

By: whoopie

whoopie — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:53:50 +0000

of course there is no problem with ning hosting porn, but it also indicates they may be slumming it for traffic. the porn biz has incredible traffic churn, and to date is low margin. ning will need more than t&a to make an exit

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:34:59 +0000

So if you don’t agree with Ning’s policy on porn, you’re a zealot? Glad we’re keeping this discussion even and unbiased.

By: Lee Cooper

Lee Cooper — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:11:01 +0000

I’d be okay with banishing porn as long as we also banished religion and taxes on the same day.

By: Dan and Jennifer

Dan and Jennifer — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:34:16 +0000

Andreessen: “We think a better approach is to let people fundamentally do what they want, as long as it isn’t illegal and doesn’t otherwise violate our terms of service.”

Very well put. Nobody is strapping you into a chair and forcing you to watch porn 24/7. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. Our society has plenty of controls in place to keep people from accidentally stumbling upon “objectionable content”.

Forcing one’s arbitrary “morality” (read: religious ideals) on others may feel righteous and noble, but it’s fundamentally flawed. It’s basically saying that your morality is somehow more important than the other person’s freedom to choose or express himself.

When in doubt, look at a society like China and the many blessings they see from their completely totalitarian control of porn, free expression, etc. Perhaps that makes it easier to understand the appeal of the “freedom to choose as long as you don’t harm others” approach?

By: Derek Scruggs

Derek Scruggs — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:08:56 +0000

Good luck with advertisers and investors. It's worked out pretty well for AT&T. Their pay-per-view porn channel was their most profitable cable channel. It was powered by a Boulder company called New Frontier which likewise delivered handsome returns to investors. They ran into some trouble with acquisitions, but that wasn't because of porn. Just bad business decisions.