Posted on 03/21/2018 7:05:56 PM PDT by Mount Athos
YouTube is entering the gun control debate with a new ban on videos which demo firearms or link to websites selling firearms or firearm accessories. The move to ban firearm demos dovetails with the media platform’s desire to “prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms.”
Ironically, guns built at home have not been part of the mass public attacks that have drawn national attention over the past months and years, but guns acquired at retail via background checks have been.
Bloomberg reports that YouTube issued a statement in coordination with new prohibitions, saying, “We routinely make updates and adjustments to our enforcement guidelines across all of our policies. While we’ve long prohibited the sale of firearms, we recently notified creators of updates we will be making around content promoting the sale or manufacture of firearms and their accessories.”
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) said YouTube’s policy shift is “worrisome.” They fear that “educational content” may now be lumped in with prohibited firearm videos and everything lost together.
NSSF observed:
We suspect it will be interpreted to block much more content than the stated goal of firearms and certain accessory sales. We see the real potential for the blocking of educational content that serves instructional, skill-building and even safety purposes. Much like Facebook, YouTube now acts as a virtual public square. The exercise of what amounts to censorship, then, can legitimately be viewed as the stifling of commercial free speech.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Will youtube ban car demonstration videos too because cars get used in crime?
I cant wait for a ban on violent movies and games!
Some of these shooters were gamers!
How about that Hollywood?
I have stopped using google search, maps and android a long time ago.
Youtube is putting itself out of business.
They should have the video from Benghazi!! /s
False headline.
I love the 2nd amendment.
And I love honest reporting.
Here’s a gun demonstration video youtube must have missed of a fully automatic shotgun with 58,000,000 views.
And it’s still up.
As are the posters other videos totaling almost 1,000,000,000 views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOoUVeyaY_8&t=239s
Should read IMO “Leftist Google bans all youtube gun demonstration video’s”. Trying some sleight of hand here.
Youtube needs to be forced to serve everyone who sits at their lunch counter.
Youtube is putting itself out of business.
A lot of my favorite channels will be gone.
Sorry for the double post! But it bears repeating...
Goodbye Hickok45
(Link goes to a new story, not to the site itself)
I’ve never owned a gun, shot one once with my hunting lover husband. But I am a huge Second Amendment supporter. There are more of us than the left will ever know. Because most Americans believe in Freedom.
If Hickok 45 goes I’m done with YouTube.
...and someone else will fill the void when they go down.
That is true...
Night, all.
Take care of yourself and God bless.
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