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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @08:44PM (3 children)
HIGH FUCKING LARRY US
Finally we see the topic that gets the libertarians/conservatives to cry foul over corporate censorship.
I dislike such rules and censorship, however you could at least try and be accurate.
"Intends to sell firearms or certain firearms accessories through direct sales.... Provides instructions on manufacturing a firearm, ammunition, high capacity magazine, homemade silencers/suppressors .... Shows users how to install the above-mentioned accessories or modifications."
They are quite specific about the video content, at least in their given policy, and it seems to match federal laws on prohibited firearm accessories and restrictions on sales. So seems like a PR move to prevent a future lawsuit about content on their system, not some dystopian future where guns are now a thought crime. Nice wind up though, don't pop a blood vessel.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Foobar Bazbot on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:54PM (2 children)
Does it now?
Making firearms for your own use is legal, and for ordinary rifles, shotguns, pistols, etc. requires no licensing, permits, or paperwork of any kind. (Making them to sell or distribute is a whole regulated thing, and certain configurations known as NFA firearms -- such as short-barreled shotguns -- require a process like silencers, see below.)
Making ammunition is legal, and quite popular as a cost-saving measure among high-volume shooters (e.g. competition shooters).
There are currently no federal regulations on "high-capacity magazines" -- the 1994 ban expired in 2004.
Homemade silencers are legal if you jump through the right hoops. You have to file paperwork, pay a $200 tax, and after a background check and 6-12 months of waiting, you finally get your tax stamp in the mail, and can make your silencer.
Yeah, exactly nothing to do with federal laws.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @08:29AM (1 child)
Notwithstanding that ALL laws regarding manufacture and possession of arms by free people are illegal and void, all those steps you mention in regards to suppressors, home-made or not, all involve direct interaction with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, a component of the USian federal government.
(Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Monday March 26 2018, @03:43PM
From the post I was replying to:
Yes, I should have said "exactly nothing to do with federal laws on prohibited firearms"
Your pedantry is acknowledged, but I think context made it pretty clear.