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The sites were delisted from search engines despite content moderation being put in place. That is deplatforming. The adult content was put behind a mature sec

The sites were delisted from search engines despite content moderation being put in place. That is deplatforming. The adult content was put behind a mature section where ads weren't run against the mature content. LiveVideo and the parents companies network of sites were deplatformed from search results. Delisting competitors from search results who are meeting all of the requirements of their advertising policies at the time is the issue. The mature content was moderated and put behind mature content filters.

tptacek 7y ago
Just to be clear, and without engaging in any other part of your comment: the AdSense guidelines forbid ads on pages that link to or otherwise promote adult content, which this site surely did.
- mysticlabs 7y ago
  There was absolutely no pornographic content on LiveVideo.com itself. Nor was it ever intended for LiveVideo to have adult content. We created the family filters for mature content. However, sexy content is just simply what people started uploading. We deleted anything that was even remotely pornographic, but there was still some sexy content as there is still plenty of sexy content on YouTube right now. We did not promote any adult content on LiveVideo.com itself. So LiveVideo.com itself wasn't in violation of these rules. Some of the other sites in our network possibly had more adult content in nature, but were not adult content websites and were not running AdSense on them.
  - tptacek 7y ago
    I'm confused, because: 1. The story seems to acknowledge that there was adult content on the site. 2. There is adult content evident in the Archive.org snapshots of the site. 3. Some of that content appears to be promoted content, links from the front page appear to go to content tagged "xxx", and many of the categories in the directory are also tagged with things like "sexy" and "girls". 4. It's not at all clear what the distinction you're trying to draw between UGC video and... what other kind of video is there on the site? Why is there a family filter at all if there's no adult content on the site?

tptacek 7y ago

Just to be clear, and without engaging in any other part of your comment: the AdSense guidelines forbid ads on pages that link to or otherwise promote adult content, which this site surely did.

mysticlabs 7y ago
There was absolutely no pornographic content on LiveVideo.com itself. Nor was it ever intended for LiveVideo to have adult content. We created the family filters for mature content. However, sexy content is just simply what people started uploading. We deleted anything that was even remotely pornographic, but there was still some sexy content as there is still plenty of sexy content on YouTube right now. We did not promote any adult content on LiveVideo.com itself. So LiveVideo.com itself wasn't in violation of these rules. Some of the other sites in our network possibly had more adult content in nature, but were not adult content websites and were not running AdSense on them.
- tptacek 7y ago
  I'm confused, because: 1. The story seems to acknowledge that there was adult content on the site. 2. There is adult content evident in the Archive.org snapshots of the site. 3. Some of that content appears to be promoted content, links from the front page appear to go to content tagged "xxx", and many of the categories in the directory are also tagged with things like "sexy" and "girls". 4. It's not at all clear what the distinction you're trying to draw between UGC video and... what other kind of video is there on the site? Why is there a family filter at all if there's no adult content on the site?