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 platforms 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 weve 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 YouTubes 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 ...
What a brilliant way to frame this issue. Big Data is practicing a new form of Jim Crow.
Ironically, it was Democrats who perpetrated that discrimination the last time, too.
No problem. I think we've all accidentally selected full-auto-post a time or two ;-)
And NutnFancy, Military Arms Channel, etcetera, because you know that YouTube won't just stop at censoring builder demonstrations.
The progressive libs who run that site won't be able to resist banning firearms related videos of every type.
Why not? Left wing newspapers and television channels have been sacrificing their bottom lines for 'the cause' for some time now.
Because, you know, free speech is like, bad.
I’m going to be in a world of hurt as a guy with some tools that watches youtube to fix my cars if youtube ever realizes that more folks die in automobile wrecks than shootings.
And of course will miss watching gun reviews, etc.
Glenn Reynolds of instapundit said that Pornhub will now be hosting these videos, joy.
Can you still point your finger and pretend it is a gun?
Thanks, oh well, I'll look for something else to replace YouTube. I've watched a lot of gun videos on YouTube, and their removal means my removal from using YouTube. Problem is, it is easily accessible from Internet-ready devices instead of only being accessible by computer browsers, and the easy access is going to be missed.
Soon the only things on YopuTube will be SJW, gender-something, and Islamic videos all other will be found harmful.
Maybe one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_hosting_services
DTube - people on FR have been saying its better than YouTube.
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I heard yesterday that GAB is also coming on line with video streaming.
Youtube needs to be forced to serve everyone who sits at their lunch counter.
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An Internet Bill of Rights is coming soon.
No, NOT a false headline.
The Breitbart article had a link to the original source, (anti-gun) Bloomberg (yeah, I know, I need a shower), which said:
“The new YouTube policies will be enforced starting in April, but at least two video bloggers have already been affected.”.
Spikes had everything on it channel taken down, but later restored...and then I just couldn’t read any further.
But the point is that it is a prospective policy, not one put into place immediately. Besides, there are millions of such videos on thousands of channels...and no one can act that quickly.
Oh, and I now officially despise YouTube, and will be looking for a replacement. I suggest that all gun owners do the same...they can ban gun videos if they want to - it is their property - but we can also show our displeasure by dropping them, and costing them money. I would also suggest that everyone who is angered or annoyed by this new policy contact their congressman, and demand that the company be broken up under the Sherman Antitrust Act, and ditto for Google and Facebook. That will really fix their wagons.
Well, it sure is convenient!
It is not misrepresented. This policy begins in April. Please see post number 56.
The policy starts in April. Please see number 56.
Even that, you might want to refrain from, especially if there are LEO around. You might get protected and served right into an early funeral home.
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