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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: 5, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Sunday March 25 2018, @05:40PM (4 children)
If you work, you have guns in the hands of private individuals to thank for the 8 hr day, lack of child labor laws, end of unpaid work, worker safety rules -- virtually everything you take for granted today, was being violently suppressed by police, state militias, and national guard troops just 100 years ago.
In the Ludlow Massacre, National Guard troops whose salaries were being paid by a Rockefeller, machine gunned a tent camp of strikers, went through dousing the tents with kerosene, lit it on fire -- the workers fought back as best they could to defend themselves against the atrocities with firearms. The national guard's actions caused 13 kids to burn to death in a medical tent -- the battle went on for about 10 days. One outcome of this war with the state of Colorado and the oligarchs who owned it, was the passage of laws at the Federal level eliminating child labor and setting an 8 hr day as standard. But do you really think the Federal Congress was acting out of the goodness of its heart (these were long standing grievences ignored for many decades)? No, Congress acted out of the real fear of a general insurrection.
The Ludlow Massacre was not the only battle fought and not the only atrocity committed by state and private police/military organizations. Without the ability of workers to use firearms to fight battles against oligarchs and the government they owned, you too would be a slave today, and we all owe a debt of thanks to the blood they shed to give us the rights we have.
As we enter a new gilded age, do you really think the Rockefellers of our time are not aware of how an armed populace might limit the 0.1%'s ability to take everything? In this context, it is completely logical for moneyed interests to convince the population to self-neuter itself and ensure that only the police and national guard have access to weapons -- these groups have forever been the tools of oligarchy and oppression so it is like the 0.1% is giving itself machine guns and tanks while making sure you have nothing but bows and sling shots.
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 25 2018, @08:04PM (3 children)
And yet in other countries people got all that without guns in their hands.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Sunday March 25 2018, @08:29PM (2 children)
You think the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution didn't put the fear of the people into other governments? I know it is currently popular to think of Europe as some utopian paradise throughout all ages, but the same story plays out time and again -- concentrated wealth and power leads to repression and horrific conditions for regular people up to the point those people begin to revolt. If those in power are too late in realizing they've overplayed their hand, they lose their heads, so smart Power makes concessions before the risk rises too high. One way to push back the point at which Power must make concessions, is to ensure the populace has only a limited ability to revolt and that tactic is perfectly expressed as gun control.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @06:53AM (1 child)
And yet in other countries people got all that without guns in their hands.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday March 26 2018, @07:38PM
So in your view, oligarchs in the UK would look at the Russian Revolution, and think -- absolutely nothing. They would have no fear, wouldn't worry, wouldn't try to propagandize their own people, wouldn't make concessions to show they aren't bad guys. They'd just look over their and go "huh -- whatever."
Don't be a moron.