No sooner did Twitter unleash its Vine video sharing app on the world, then some users began realizing it was easy to find pornographic material hosted through the service with a simple hashtag.
The Verge reported Sunday that a simple hashtag can be used to search for "pornographic material" being hosted on Twitter's new Vine video sharing service -- and now users may be waiting for other shoe to drop in Cupertino.
Following the removal of photo sharing service 500px from the App Store over "feating pornographic images and material," The Verge now speculates that Vine could soon run afoul of Apple's "puritanical, unevenly-enforced policies for adult content" as well.
The question is: What can they really do about it? Apple enjoys a cozy relationship with Twitter, and that can't exactly control the type of hashtags users are tagging their Vine movies with in the first place.
While Vine does allow users to "report videos as inappropriate within the product," their legal eagles appear to be more focused on identity fraud, copyright or intellectual property violations, spam and flat-out illegal activities -- "inappropriate" content is not currently listed as against the company's terms of service.
Your move, Apple…
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