Posted on 03/21/2018 10:34:36 AM PDT by servo1969
YouTube has updated its policies on content featuring firearms, leading to the suspension of a large gun manufacturer and forcing popular gun content creators to remove videos from their channels.
“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, specifically, items like ammunition, gatling triggers, and drop-in auto sears,” reads a statement from a YouTube spokesperson.
The list of prohibited content now includes links to sites that sell firearms, videos that teach installation of certain accessories, and videos that teach the entirely legal acts of manufacturing guns and reloading ammunition. Here are the specific guidelines from YouTube:
YouTube prohibits certain kinds of content featuring firearms. Specifically, we don’t allow content that:● Intends to sell firearms or certain firearms accessories through direct sales (e.g., private sales by individuals) or links to sites that sell these items. These accessories include but may not be limited to accessories that enable a firearm to simulate automatic fire or convert a firearm to automatic fire (e.g., bump stocks, gatling triggers, drop-in auto sears, conversion kits), and high capacity magazines (i.e., magazines or belts carrying more than 30 rounds).
● Provides instructions on manufacturing a firearm, ammunition, high capacity magazine, homemade silencers/suppressors, or certain firearms accessories such as those listed above. This also includes instructions on how to convert a firearm to automatic or simulated automatic firing capabilities.
● Shows users how to install the above-mentioned accessories or modifications.
Spike’s Tactical, a Florida-based manufacturer of guns and accessories, posted on their Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday that their YouTube account has been suspended for violating community guidelines.
This is not the first time YouTube has tightened its firearms policies. After the Las Vegas shooting, YouTube ruled that videos instructing how to install bump stocks fell under the category of “harmful and dangerous content.”
“We have long had a policy against harmful and dangerous content,” a YouTube spokesperson told The Telegraph. “In the wake of the recent tragedy in Las Vegas, we have taken a closer look at videos that demonstrate how to convert firearms to make them fire more quickly and we’ve expanded our existing policy to prohibit these videos.”
There goes handloading (”manufacturing...ammunition,”.
One of the anti-gun State Senators here tried to pass a bill in my State with similar provisions about 15 years ago. Luckily, it failed.
Great analogy. This is like Ford or Chevy mandating all auto repair videos for their products be taken offline, because someone drove an F150 through a crowd of people.
But, because automobiles have a "sporting purpose," we don't bring that up, do we?
Banning gun safety videos - pure emotion, zero intellect.
I said it before and I’ll say it again. Its a fool’s errand to expect a bunch of ultraleft silicon valley and bay area megacorporations to treat you fairly. Google’s not going to roll over in bed one day and say you know lets be evenhanded with conservatism from now on. The only real solution is to support or make alternatives. Even if they manage to appear fair its because they’re successfully hiding how they’re screwing you.
Full30.com
.. It just pushes the lessons underground.
You can bet anything that the muslim training camps in PA and NY are teaching people how to modify guns.
That’s it.
Report the ones with guns and explosives. See how that sh*t won't fly with Whoreywood.
I just looked up how to dismantle an ak 47 and youtube has lots of videos on the subject.
I am sure a machinist could help me out. If and when the time comes.
Does no good for hard working Conservatives to boycott a YT platform overwhelmed with stoned, unemployed, liberals.
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Are they banning Hollywood movies and trailers that glorify gun violence?
Of course the hypocrites won’t do that.
Did it occur to them that this also bans gun safety videos?
No content allowed from Bloomberg, but here’s the link.
YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/youtube-bans-firearm-sales-and-how-to-videos-prompting-backlash
“And movie trailers?”
Movie or video game trailers with guns or shooting damned well better be banned, too.
I’m actively looking for a video site that supports our First Amendment and Second Amendment and will be preferring other sites against YouTube and Facebook.
It can happen if the government gets involved. Try competing with Microsoft, lot of money there if you bowl them over.
YOUTUBE MOVES TO BAN GUNS: 3 THINGS YOU CAN DO
https://www.full30.com/video/ddc097bc3fe2d9480d9541a296488c52
FULL30
Firearms Reviews, Education, and Entertainment
(videos, blog, etc.)
https://www.full30.com/
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