Anyone know what is going on with Skinbook?? According to this article, it looks like a new Ning policy could affect their continued operation – at least, as long as they want to continue with Ning as their authentication service.

Here’s the paragraph that gives Skinbook a bit of a kicking (taken from the Ning Updated T&C’s

No more nudity: We will no longer permit nudity of any kind on the Ning platform. A little over a year and a half ago, we prohibited the upload of adult content and pornography to the Ning platform. At the time, we said that nudity that wasn’t adult in nature would still be allowed. Unfortunately, many of the issues that caused us to stop supporting adult content in the first place are still arising on networks that post content with nudity. We believe that the implementation of this policy will further reduce abuse on the Ning platform and will create a clean, well-lit environment for Network Creators as well as the advertisers and partners you choose to work with. Network Creators and members will have thirty days (until August 20th) to remove any nudity they may have uploaded to the Ning Platform prior to today or to transition their networks off of the platform.

We’ll be keeping an eye on this one – Skinbook apparently has over 9,000 members, and a much larger pool of genuine nudists who were refused membership for reasons unknown to them!! We’re also included in the excluded group – we were refused membership both as a site and as individuals, no reason or explanation ever given. And we haven’t been bothered by that refusal in the slightest!!

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