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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:16PM (6 children)
Correct. The successful anti-socials in the poorer community are then the driver of further anti-social behaviour and this is how you get no-go zones.
Incorrect. You cannot eliminate inequalities without tyranny, they are inherent properties of existence. It's also not NRA members committing mass shootings but they would be your best line of defence against a tyrannical Marxist government doing what Marxist governments do. [theepochtimes.com]
Physician heal thyself - your proposed cure is worse than the disease.
(Score: 4, Informative) by fritsd on Sunday March 25 2018, @05:39PM (5 children)
WTF?! Are you claiming that countries like the European countries with low GINI scores [wikipedia.org], are tyrannical? I don't think so. There are great differences between countries w.r.t. inequality.
So why do many countries manage a GINI of around 25%, as opposed to the USA's 47% and yet I haven't read about public executions of The Rich in Slovenia, Belgium, Finland, Iceland??
Unless you used the word "eliminate" as an absolute. But that's just sophistry: sure you can't *eliminate* inequalities, but you can ameliorate them by adapting your tax law. Progressive taxation helps to greatly reduce the inequalities over the span of a few generations.
Let the strongest shoulders bear the heaviest loads. And that doesn't result in tyranny.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @06:12PM (4 children)
No, I'm claiming that eliminating inequalities in pursuit of a utopian ideal is tyrannical; a claim I did not limit to wealth inequality.
I agree with the premise entirely but you have to accept the economic reality that some invest while others squander.
It did for the plantation slaves! Historically people begin objecting to paying income taxes at rates around 45%, slowing growth and the prospect of inflation will always bring this to the fore.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @06:24PM (3 children)
We need a phrase like Godwin for when a conservative tries to play the oppression card.
Higher taxes == slavery? Lawl
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @06:58PM (2 children)
I am not a conservative. I humbly suggest you try justifying your theory using the influential, although discredited Marxist value of labor. All you need to do is replace "boss" and "profit" with "state" and "tax".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @08:55PM (1 child)
Sounds like you're sitting on a tall horse. I would not equate a capitalist organization with slavery either unless an employee was not free to quit.
I arrogantly call you ridiculous.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @09:43PM
My horse is being self-employed, owning the means of production and living the "Marxist dream" :P Someone else brought Marx into the discussion - there should probably be an equivalent of Godwins law for whenever anybody does that. The fallacy of argumentum-ad-marxism. Since you recognise that voluntary employment is not exploitative you would, presumably, also recognise that a majority of your income being taken via taxation under the threat of government force is exploitative? If you already recognise that Marxism is ridiculous then the point I was making will seem equally ridiculous.