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What Exactly Is Adult Content? Google Forces Ning Onto A Slippery Slope.On Tuesday Ning changed its long standing policy on allowing networks that show pornography and adult material. "Adult social networks don’t pull their own weight," Ning CEO Gina Bianchini said, and "our ad partners aren’t big fans of the adult networks." As far as I can tell, at this time Ning has only one advertising partner - Google. Google won't put adsense on sites that contain "Pornography, adult, or mature content," so Ning was at risk of being banned by Google despite the fact that only a very small portion of the networks on Ning are adult oriented. The problem is that it isn't clear exactly what networks are being banned. In the blog post, Bianchini said that "adult social networks" are being discontinued. In response to inquiries by some network operators, Ning clarified their policy today in a new blog post. "As it relates to the Ning Platform, adult networks include, but aren’t limited to pornography and depictions of sexual acts," Bianchini says.