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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) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:20PM (5 children)
Correction: we still have lots of guns in Oz. We consider them guns, not firearms.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:51PM (4 children)
Just to add to your correction, here in the UK we've fairly strict gun laws, handguns are banned, automatic weapons are banned, but there is no outright ban on firearms, though there are creeping idiocies like, for example, Scotland, where you now need a licence to own an air weapon, though they're being remarkably quiet on how many of the estimated 500,000 air weapons that they estimated were in legal ownership up until they changed the law have been registered/destroyed (last figures I can find 17,000 licences applied for, 21,000 weapons destroyed).
Anyhoo, as you probably guessed, all this legislation and licensing hasn't stopped the criminal elements from getting their hands on real firearms (e.g. Google 'midlands gun gangs' for a recent example), and I have to also add that it's currently not politically correct to point out that along with the influx of Eastern European economic migrants we also got an influx of Eastern European automatic weaponry..and hand pistols..and grenades (allegedly), and just wait till the Jihadists sneak back...
Meanwhile, we have this. [telegraph.co.uk]
Funny old world, isn't it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:55PM
Yechh, I missed that, I either need sleep, booze or coffee or all three of them (coffee makes me sleep, go figure..)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Monday March 26 2018, @07:09AM (2 children)
"here in the UK we've fairly strict gun laws, handguns are banned"
With these interesting results:
https://crimeresearch.org/2013/12/murder-and-homicide-rates-before-and-after-gun-bans/ [crimeresearch.org]
Hmmm.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @03:54PM (1 child)
Indeed, they tend to keep very quiet about statistics like these...that is, until they want to justify the arming of the Police..
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:21AM
And then it's suddenly all deadly butter knives everywhere!!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.