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YouTube Removing Gun Videos in 30 days
Full30 Facebook page ^ | 3-19-2018 | Full30

Posted on 03/20/2018 8:53:46 AM PDT by JamesP81

I received an email from my Google/YouTube rep at 9:30pm tonight. He requested an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss YouTube's new policies regarding firearms content.

This is really bad. Please read this carefully and a couple of times, and let it sink in. 1/3rd of my videos or more will need to be removed. If you don't have them removed in 30 days, your channel will be deleted for policy violations.

I wish this were a joke. It's not. I feel horrible for reloading channels or NFA channels. Showing how to make ammo or even showing the installation of a silencer is prohibited. Hell, showing the use of a magazine larger than 30 rounds is prohibited! Belt feds are a no go.

I'll try to find out as much as I can from my rep tomorrow. I mean, are legal machine guns and silencers being demonstrated really going to get us account strikes now?

Please read this guys... I'm in shock, but then I knew this day wold come. It looks like it's here in 30 days. I'm at a total loss for words. ~Tim

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7667605


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; internet; secondamendment; youtube
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To: ctdonath2

Hard to argue with a large content hosting service blocking content which is borderline, or actually, illegal. They don’t want to be legally implicated when some moron DOES finish an 80% lower, makes a bump stock, attaches a 100-round mag, tacks on a homemade can, and then mows down a school.

I’m not approving such a ban, just understanding it.
Let’s know what the actual issue is before freaking out.

(And oh yeah would help if someone started making a YouTube, Twitter, & FB replacement. Not actually that hard these days.)


41 posted on 03/20/2018 9:40:10 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: JamesP81

If they are going to kick us out of the Virtual World, we should be taking over the Real World.

That means talking to real people who you know who might not agree with you. It is uncomfortable and intimidating.

It means violating some social conventions that we do not discuss political matters in certain settings. We don’t want to do this, but if it is to be all we have left, we have to.

It means being prepared to discuss things in a cool, rational way. It means cultivating a public image as a thoughtful and reasonable person who deserves to be listened to. It means never losing your temper and flying off the handle, because that gives them exactly what they want.

We are going to have to win this fight one conversation at a time. Fortunately, one real conversation with a calm and friendly person is worth a thousand screeching posts on-line.

And one trip to the gun range, including training and a discussion of the utility and hazards of gun use is worth a million.

So go forth. Preach to the ignorant. Help guide the misguided. Tell people the truth, and let them make up their own minds.

There are millions of us. If each of us reaches and turns one person a year, or maybe two, we will win this debate once and for all by the end of Trump’s first term.

So, think about your circle of acquaintances. Who could you talk to? Who would be liable to listen? Who could you bring to the range for a fun and informative day of shooting?


42 posted on 03/20/2018 9:40:17 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: JamesP81

Policies on content featuring firearms
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.
Report content that violates this policy
You can report videos that you believe violate this policy by flagging the video.

Thanks for your feedback!


43 posted on 03/20/2018 9:41:26 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Don't hate me because I'm sane.)
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To: Celerity
Porn site.

For real? OK, just searched it...it's already taken, but does not appear to be porn, just general vid posts.

44 posted on 03/20/2018 9:42:22 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JamesP81

Films included i.e., all westerns, all war movies, all action movies, etc.?


45 posted on 03/20/2018 9:42:49 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: JamesP81
Theres also :

PerwTube - https://pewtube.com/

HookTube - https://hooktube.com/

46 posted on 03/20/2018 9:46:26 AM PDT by Ron H. (A proud white combat veteran.)
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To: Lazamataz
There's really no alternative to Google, it is hands-down the best search engine out there.

A couple of times when BING didn't give me what I was looking for I broke down and used Google. They didn't have the answers either.

47 posted on 03/20/2018 9:46:47 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JamesP81

And what would that be worth every month. Bandwidth and storage is not free.


48 posted on 03/20/2018 9:49:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: NTHockey

Not to mention the massive amount of pvp action video gamers content that YouTube has ads running on. Think they’ll pull those? After all, you can find all sorts of graphic “gun” violence on those, not to mention acts of torture, kidnapping, forced executions, suicide, even rape.


49 posted on 03/20/2018 9:50:01 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: JamesP81
You have to hand it to the Left.

First they create an Entity that everyone goes to and where they can Post anything, making it the big dog pseudo Monopoly.

Then they begin to strategically limit content with an ever changing Terms of Use Policy. They do this slowly and deliberately and they use Public Opinion distorted by the Liberal Media as their Barometer.

They turn information into Propaganda by limiting any content that goes against their “unstated” mission.

50 posted on 03/20/2018 9:51:10 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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Bookmarking


51 posted on 03/20/2018 9:51:42 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: JamesP81

Time for FReetube???

Jim, I hear knocking.


52 posted on 03/20/2018 9:52:23 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW...)
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To: JamesP81

“We need a competitor that believes in free speech and expression to displace youtube, basically.”

Too often these things don’t really start out as lefty sites, but they become successful and end up being bought out by those with left leanings when the creator/entrepreneur that started them decides its time to cash in.


53 posted on 03/20/2018 10:08:14 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: JimRed

Bitchute.com or even minds.com


54 posted on 03/20/2018 10:10:48 AM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: JamesP81

Prove it !!


55 posted on 03/20/2018 10:26:51 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: JamesP81

I’m all for increasing competition via the Ma Bell/Baby Bells model.

Apply that to any internet medium that has a virtual monopoly on its type of service, such as FaceBook, Twitter, Google search and YouTube, etc.


56 posted on 03/20/2018 10:27:25 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Ron H.

” The owners decided to change the direction of their own businesses and they don’t need anyone’s permission to do so. This could prove to be a good thing in the long run for free speech advocacy,...”

Yeah, and when the liberal pukes decide to boot POTUS Trump from twitter? Will that be a good thing as well?


57 posted on 03/20/2018 10:32:09 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: JamesP81

Gun-related vids on Utube are good for safety and should not be taken down.

When I recently bought a CZ semi-auto shotgun the user manual was crap. I went to Utube and saw a great video on how to take it down for cleaning. Same when I bought a MEC “grabber” shotshell reloader, a Utube vid showed me the steps.


58 posted on 03/20/2018 10:32:14 AM PDT by RicocheT (Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

https://www.patreon.com/hickok45

Hickok’s back up plan


59 posted on 03/20/2018 10:34:58 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: S.O.S121.500
Time for FReetube??? Jim, I hear knocking.

We can only just barely keep FR up and running now with constant Beg-a-thons. How do you propose to fund the expansion?

60 posted on 03/20/2018 10:39:57 AM PDT by Chuckster (There is no government solution to government corruption.)
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