Comments on: the Art of Restraint through my Android’s simulated voyeurcam http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/11/the-art-of-restraint-through-my-androids-simulated-voyeurcam.html Journalist and author Violet Blue's site for sex and tech culture, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Tue, 26 May 2015 17:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: E http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/11/the-art-of-restraint-through-my-androids-simulated-voyeurcam.html/comment-page-1#comment-7236 E Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:58:13 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=3750#comment-7236 <blockquote cite="Ustream kicked her off when it started to get attention. Which brings me to wonder, why, if there is no FCC to hold us back from showing simple and natural human nudity on the Internet, why we are stuck with prudish entities like Ustream."> There isn't any government institution preventing Ustream from hosting FiveStar's demo, or outright porn for that matter. But as a lover of the free market I feel obliged to point out that a private firm has every right to choose the data it hosts -- especially considering they are providing the service gratis. Cable TV (or for that matter broadcast TV between 2200 and 0600) is not subject to FCC regulations either, but in order to maintain a healthy stream of advertising revenue they (prudently -- at least in the states) blur the naughty bits. I doubt that the webmaster is responsible is the prude -- far more likely the video was pulled for fear of fiscal repercussions. The flip side of that, is that there is good money to be made in opening up a streaming website that appeals to the prurient. Some advertisers may be scared off, but certainly not all of them -- fleshbot and the myriad *tube sites certainly aren't flagging. ---------------------------- From their TOS: 6. "you agree that you will not do any of the following": 6.6 "Upload, stream, email, or otherwise transmit, via the Site or Services, any User Submissions that... contain nudity (including without limitation any pornography, erotica, child pornography or child erotica)" 2.b. "Ustream.tv may... remove any material (including User Submissions) from the Site or our servers, in the event that you breach these Terms of Service.

There isn’t any government institution preventing Ustream from hosting FiveStar’s demo, or outright porn for that matter. But as a lover of the free market I feel obliged to point out that a private firm has every right to choose the data it hosts — especially considering they are providing the service gratis.

Cable TV (or for that matter broadcast TV between 2200 and 0600) is not subject to FCC regulations either, but in order to maintain a healthy stream of advertising revenue they (prudently — at least in the states) blur the naughty bits. I doubt that the webmaster is responsible is the prude — far more likely the video was pulled for fear of fiscal repercussions.

The flip side of that, is that there is good money to be made in opening up a streaming website that appeals to the prurient. Some advertisers may be scared off, but certainly not all of them — fleshbot and the myriad *tube sites certainly aren’t flagging.

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From their TOS:
6. “you agree that you will not do any of the following”:
6.6 “Upload, stream, email, or otherwise transmit, via the Site or Services, any User Submissions that… contain nudity (including without limitation any pornography, erotica, child pornography or child erotica)”

2.b. “Ustream.tv may… remove any material (including User Submissions) from the Site or our servers, in the event that you breach these Terms of Service.

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