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[Bloomberg] YouTube bans firearms demo videos
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:08 pm
Bloomberg
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YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, this week quietly introduced tighter restrictions on videos involving weapons, becoming the latest battleground in the U.S. gun-control debate. YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to websites selling firearms and accessories, including bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic rifle to fire faster.
Additionally, YouTube said it will prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms. The video site, owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, has faced intense criticism for hosting videos about guns, bombs and other deadly weapons.
For many gun-rights supporters, YouTube has been a haven. A current search on the site for “how to build a gun” yields 25 million results, though that includes items such as toys. At least one producer of gun videos saw its page suspended on Tuesday. Another channel opted to move its videos to an adult-content site, saying that will offer more freedom than YouTube. “We routinely make updates and adjustments to our enforcement guidelines across all of our policies,” a YouTube spokeswoman said in a statement. “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.”
YouTube has placed greater restrictions on content several times in the past year, responding to a series of issues with inappropriate and offensive videos. Most of those changes involved pulling ads from categories of videos. Google is more reluctant to remove entire videos from YouTube, but has been willing to do so with terrorism-related content.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry lobbying group, called YouTube’s new policy “worrisome.” “We suspect it will be interpreted to block much more content than the stated goal of firearms and certain accessory sales,” the foundation said in a statement. “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.” The firearms decision comes days before Saturday’s March For Our Lives, a rally organized by survivors of the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead. See also: QuickTake on the gun-control debate The new YouTube policies will be enforced starting in April, but at least two video bloggers have already been affected. Spike’s Tactical, a firearms company, said in a post on Facebook that it was suspended from YouTube due to “repeated or severe violations” of the video platform’s guidelines. “Well, since we’ve melted some snowflakes on YouTube and got banned, might as well set IG and FB on fire!,” Spike’s wrote on Facebook, where it has over 111,000 followers, referring to the social network and its Instagram app.
A YouTube spokeswoman said the channel has been reinstated after it was mistakenly removed. InRange TV, another channel devoted to firearms, wrote on its Facebook page that it would begin uploading videos to PornHub, an adult content website.
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“YouTube’s newly released released vague and one-sided firearms policy makes it abundantly clear that YouTube cannot be counted upon to be a safe harbor for a wide variety of views and subject matter,” InRange TV wrote. “PornHub has a history of being a proactive voice in the online community, as well as operating a resilient and robust video streaming platform.” PornHub didn’t immediately return a request for comment on the matter.
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Last month, gun control activists escalated the pressure on tech giants for giving a platform to the National Rifle Association. A flurry of businesses cut ties with the pro-gun group after the deadly Parkland school shooting. Companies with streaming services, such as Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and YouTube, declined to remove the NRA channel.
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 5:11 pm
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Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:11 pm to tiggerthetooth
frick YouTube
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:11 pm to tiggerthetooth
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:15 pm to tiggerthetooth
I don’t know why anyone is shocked.
The left is where they are because they have infiltrated and largely taken control of virtually every platform that has broad influence over the population:
Public schools
Colleges and Universities
Television/Movies
Print and broadcast news media
Taking over social media is just the next logical step in what has been going on for decades. This is only happening faster than previous infiltrations because there is no need for infiltration as a slow process because those that control social media are already on board and more than ready to help.
No one should be surprised.
The left is where they are because they have infiltrated and largely taken control of virtually every platform that has broad influence over the population:
Public schools
Colleges and Universities
Television/Movies
Print and broadcast news media
Taking over social media is just the next logical step in what has been going on for decades. This is only happening faster than previous infiltrations because there is no need for infiltration as a slow process because those that control social media are already on board and more than ready to help.
No one should be surprised.
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:16 pm to tiggerthetooth
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InRange TV, another channel devoted to firearms, wrote on its Facebook page that it would begin uploading videos to PornHub
Kill two birds with one stone
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 5:27 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:17 pm to Scoop
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Taking over social media is just the next logical step in what has been going on for decades. T
They've already got social media. They already own everything BUT the government itself...at least for now. Thats what pisses them off so much I believe. They thought they had all of the information holes plugged up in their favor, but the election of Trump reminded them that even though they control so much, people didn't submit to their structured channels of influence.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:18 pm to Scoop
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Creating social media is just the next logical step in what has been going on for decades.
Fify
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:19 pm to tiggerthetooth
That is a HUGE market to turn away.
Demolition Ranch alone has 4.7 million subscribers.
Demolition Ranch alone has 4.7 million subscribers.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:19 pm to tiggerthetooth
Have they already banned bomb making videos?
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:19 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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Green Chili Tiger
Hey congrats on controlling all the channels of information bud.
You can finally train people in the ways of the democrat religion and punish any dissenters. Enjoy!
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:21 pm to tiggerthetooth
PornHub needs to make GunPornHub and profit
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:22 pm to tiggerthetooth
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The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry lobbying group, called YouTube’s new policy “worrisome.” “We suspect it will be interpreted to block much more content than the stated goal of firearms and certain accessory sales,” the foundation said in a statement. “We see the real potential for the blocking of educational content that serves instructional, skill-building and even safety purposes.
This sounds like slippery-slope histrionics.
If YouTube currently bans the sale of firearms, why wouldn't they take the logical step of banning sites that show how to build a gun in your garage.
They need to see how it is implemented before going all Chicken Little.
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 5:23 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:22 pm to MrCoachKlein
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PornHub needs to make GunPornHub and profit
Somebody needs to make something different, and make it fast or else youtube is going to propagandize further than it already does.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:26 pm to texridder
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This sounds like slippery-slope histrionics.
If YouTube currently bans the sale of firearms, why wouldn't they take the logical step of banning sites that show how to build a gun in your garage.
They need to see how it is implemented before going all Chicken Little.
Considering google owns YouTube and gun related websites show up in google search, why not just have google block and ban all gun related content? Whats the difference between a gun related site showing up through the parent company's search engine and a gun related video showing up on youtube? If someone really wanted to learn for nefarious purposes theyd certainly go to google first and foremost. Especially if youtube isn't making it available. Do they really believe youtube videos are making murderers? Whats the difference between that logic and Hillary blaming Benghazi on a youtube video?
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:27 pm to Scoop
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The left is where they are because they have infiltrated and largely taken control of virtually every platform that has broad influence over the population:
Public schools
Colleges and Universities
Television/Movies
Print and broadcast news media
Taking over social media is just the next logical step in what has been going on for decades. This is only happening faster than previous infiltrations because there is no need for infiltration as a slow process because those that control social media are already on board and more than ready to help.
You make it sound so nefarious. Has it ever occurred to you that people around Higher Learning tend to be more liberal because of general giving a shite? Institutions of Higher Learning are always about progressing and thought and moving forward and honestly from what I've seen from conservatives in my lifetime that is not your MO.
Television and movies makes perfect sense because they're creative and theyre artists which is also going to make them more liberal as human beings. Conservatives are drab and usually not very creative.
Journalists tend to be more liberal but the companies that own most of the media tends to be more conservative though that has changed a little recently.
These are the things you shouldn't be surprised about
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 5:31 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:29 pm to tiggerthetooth
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They've already got social media. They already own everything BUT the government itself..
What do you think about most business owners? Bankers? You consider them liberal? How about weapons contractors? How about the military? Your whole scare tactic here is useless because conservatives own plenty
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 5:34 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:30 pm to tiggerthetooth
This might be enough to spark a right wing version of YouTube. I know there are things close to YouTube that target surgeons, so surely someone will fill the space left by guns.
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:33 pm to Ebbandflow
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Has it ever occurred to you that people around Higher Learning tend to be more liberal because of general giving a shite?
This is so dumb only in your bubble is this true
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:34 pm to Ebbandflow
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Has it ever occurred to you that people around Higher Learning tend to be more liberal because of general giving a shite? Institutions of Higher Learning are always about progressing and thought and moving forward and honestly from what I've seen from conservatives in my lifetime that is not your MO.
I don't even know where to begin.
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:35 pm to tiggerthetooth
woah
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