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YouTube expands firearms restrictions, more gun videos to be banned
"Some gun-related channels are already feeling the heat."
YouTube is placing more restrictions on weapons-related videos, focusing on guns with new, forthcoming policy changes. According to a Bloomberg report, YouTube intends to ban videos that "promote or link to websites selling firearms and accessories," including bump stocks, beginning this April. The new policy will also prohibit instructional videos that detail how to build firearms.
These restrictions come over a month after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida and just a few days before the March for Our Lives rally organized by the student survivors of the Parkland shooting. YouTube took similar action after the Las Vegas shooting last year by banning gun-modification tutorials.
"We routinely make updates and adjustments to our enforcement guidelines across all of our policies," a YouTube representative said in a statement to Bloomberg. "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."
[...] While some may see YouTube's new firearms policy as ambiguously worded, it's the forthcoming implementation that will get the most reaction from firearms channels. Plenty of YouTubers have seen their content demonetized or removed due to the way YouTube's algorithm and moderators filter out potentially offensive content and content that goes against Community Guidelines. It's possible that gun-related videos that do not explicitly violate the new rules will get caught up in the first rounds of YouTube's upcoming purge.
[...] With the upcoming policy, YouTube will join the bevy of other companies, including Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart, that have instituted new restrictions on the promotion or sales of firearms in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
Gun videos migrate to porn sites as YouTube cracks down
THERE is a bunch of unusual videos turning up on porn streaming sites as America's gun advocates cry foul.
YOUTUBE is going to start banning videos related to the sale or manufacture of guns next month, so as a way to make up for it, firearm aficionados are jumping ship to Pornhub — where they can post pretty much any clip they'd like.
Gun videos migrate to porn sites as YouTube cracks down
(Score: 1, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Sunday March 25 2018, @02:11PM (17 children)
Some of this anti-gun stuff seems to be going a bit nuts lately. All of these reports of kids walking out of schools in "protest" smell of someone else putting ideas in their heads. It is a bit disturbing that there seems to be little talk about keeping rights, but given recent events it is hard to make that argument.
Of course you know what is going to happen long term. Guns will become illegal, except for the militarized police who will continue to gun down whoever they feel like.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Sulla on Sunday March 25 2018, @02:42PM (8 children)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/ [statista.com] - 2016
I for one hope these kids are successful in getting everything deadly from rifles on up banned, this way murder ends.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @03:08PM (1 child)
Don't forget "words are violence", when they've taken your hands they'll have to take your tongue too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @07:26PM
Don't be so alarmist! Of course they will not take your hands! Just your arms. And you can keep your tongue, and even hold it. Yes, hold your tongue, you SJW!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Sunday March 25 2018, @03:16PM (3 children)
There is a better, simple, and effective way to get all of those murder rates down to zero.
Have your humans spayed or neutered. Then in a little more than 100 years the rates will magically be zero. YAY!
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Sunday March 25 2018, @07:11PM
Not sure I am looking forward to responsible people keeping responsible people from being born and irresponsible people causing more irresponsible people.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:35PM
You first, buddy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:46PM
Better still, pollute their food with chemicals which make them sterile...
Same end result, less unpopular use of gelding shears or the good old two bricks...
Remember TPTB love doing shit like this by stealth, so, on that subject, whilst all this anti-gun theatre is going on as the distraction, the question you have to ask is, What are 'They' getting up to that they don't want anyone to focus on?.
But, but, but.... [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday March 26 2018, @02:37PM (1 child)
Yep. That's why the United States leads the world in intentional homicides [wikipedia.org] per 100,000 inhabitants, all right.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:41AM
What's that saying about those who forget history?
War On Drugs is just a second, illegal, Prohibition.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @05:00PM
It's more nuts because of extra publicity compared to other massacres. The Florida school was 40% Jewish. Much of the media, including YouTube is led by Jews. Coincidence?
(Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday March 25 2018, @05:04PM (1 child)
But of course. Kids that showed up to class instead of "volunteering" for the protests faced suspension in many schools. And showing up to the protests in NRA gear or with other pro 2nd amendment posters? Suspension. Like all Progs, the teachers wanted the kids to speak out so long as they agreed with them.
Never forget that the Venn diagram of "People who want to abolish the 1st Amendment" and "People who want to abolish the 2nd Amendment" is basically one single circle with a few bumps of oddballs here and there. And if if we give up either one we will certainly lose both.
(Score: 3, Touché) by number11 on Sunday March 25 2018, @07:21PM
Cite?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @07:16PM (1 child)
“All of these reports of kids walking out of schools in "protest" smell of someone else putting ideas in their heads.”
Probably just different peeps than those who put ideas in yours. Or do you really think the kids have no way to discern incoming information while you are a master of it?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @12:05AM
This who put my ideas in my head.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472027/?ref_=nv_sr_1 [imdb.com]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758790/?ref_=nv_sr_1 [imdb.com]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_32 [imdb.com]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_19 [imdb.com]
The first 10 are basically a laundry list of 'fuck you england'. For every 'right' the crown did that thing and more so than you think. They would throw you in jail at the drop of a hat for just speaking up or owning a gun. The lawyers who made this list knew exactly what would happen again. They put them in place as a pretty amazing house of cards glued together to make sure they all self reinforce each other. Notice it was basically a group of lawyers who made it? They knew exactly how we were getting screwed. It was their business to either do the screwing or defend against it. The bill of rights was their gift to us to stop our gov from doing it again.
As a group of programmers you should look at it in awe. The subtlety of how it works is pretty amazing. It is a system that works if used correctly. You should see any affront upon it, as if someone wants to remove a portion of the GPL (which also only works because of our constitution).
(Score: 4, Insightful) by number11 on Sunday March 25 2018, @07:18PM (2 children)
So far, I haven't seen gun owners doing anything about the militarized police, why would we believe it would ever happen? Not even in the states that have a "stand your ground" defense. When the "Patriot" act was passed, I didn't hear a peep out of gun owners.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @02:54AM
Then you sure as hell weren't listening.
Or maybe you expect them all to have been on CNN, saying: "AS A GUN OWNER I think that the Patriot act is a crock of shit."
TL;DR: you only didn't hear it because you weren't listening in the right places. Many of them were furious.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday March 26 2018, @07:51PM
What I find shocking is that gun control advocates want to give police even more power in these pieces of legislation -- there's always an exception for cops. Given the long history of violence and abuse by police at the behest of the 0.1%, I'm pretty shocked at the number of people who just don't care.