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YouTube Expands Firearms Restrictions, Some Content Creators Move

posted by mrpg on Sunday March 25 2018, @01:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-didnt-see-that-coming dept.

Fnord666 writes:

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

An Anonymous Coward inform us of a link:

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

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 25 2018, @03:59PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 25 2018, @03:59PM (#657947) Journal

    You think the NRA and media is right when it tells you that other citizens are power-hungry crazies?
    Why would the NRA be motivated to tell you that, citizen?/quote?

    Because - HISTORY, and HUMAN NATURE. If you have read any history at all, you know that people are power-hungry crazies. Mankind is a murderous lot. Mankind killed millions upon millions of his fellow man before he ever figured out how to use gunpowder for murder. And, human nature hasn't changed in any way since the first philosopher wrote down his observations.

    Inanimate objects don't kill people - people kill people.

    Chairman Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and the rest of the authorities on murder all agree, though. For the best results in genocide, it is best to disarm the citizens.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:00PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:00PM (#657948) Journal

    Can't believe I typed my response inside of the quotes. Ho-hum. One day, I may learn to preview my submissions.

    • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by idiot_king on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:04PM (1 child)

      by idiot_king (6587) on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:04PM (#657950)

      Doubt it...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @09:02AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @09:02AM (#658303)

        Really doubt it. Runaway1956 (2926) has shown a remarkable resistance to learning, or for that matter, any other form of behavior modification. Deplorable and incorrigible. Signing him up for the Miss Arkansas/Hilary Clinton/Sarah Huckabee Sanders re-education camp. Last chance.