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YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate (bloomberg.com)
YouTube has quietly introduced tighter restrictions on videos involving weapons, becoming the latest battleground in the U.S. gun-control debate. "YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to websites selling firearms and accessories, including bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic rifle to fire faster," reports Bloomberg. "Additionally, YouTube said it will prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms." From the report: "We routinely make updates and adjustments to our enforcement guidelines across all of our policies," a YouTube spokeswoman said in a statement. "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." The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry lobbying group, called YouTube's new policy "worrisome." "We suspect it will be interpreted to block much more content than the stated goal of firearms and certain accessory sales," the foundation said in a statement. "We see the real potential for the blocking of educational content that serves instructional, skill-building and even safety purposes. Much like Facebook, YouTube now acts as a virtual public square. The exercise of what amounts to censorship, then, can legitimately be viewed as the stifling of commercial free speech."
The new YouTube policies will be enforced starting in April, but at least two video bloggers have already been affected. Spike's Tactical, a firearms company, said in a post on Facebook that it was suspended from YouTube due to "repeated or severe violations" of the video platform's guidelines.
The new YouTube policies will be enforced starting in April, but at least two video bloggers have already been affected. Spike's Tactical, a firearms company, said in a post on Facebook that it was suspended from YouTube due to "repeated or severe violations" of the video platform's guidelines.
Gun nuts will start bleating about the Constitution. Guess what, you AREN'T part of a well regulated militia.
Good. Their kind needs to be silenced.
for fairly strict gun control and think many US states would fare better with stricter control
And is exactly why your eurotrash countries are turning into third world shitholes and rape capitols. Nice job taking the only means of defending yourself away from the good guys. Typical left wing stupidity
All the gun nuts complaining out there: you obviously had no problem with extremist Islamic videos being taken down, so why shouldn't Youtube also take down videos that supports a culture that is responsible for more deaths in the US than Islamic extremism?
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
Tell that to the person murdered when asking for help because he had the wrong skin color and an accent. Yes have happened. Yes the murderer got no punishment. Obviously the reasonable response when hearing an accent is to shoot the source.
'90 so don't remember details. Disgusting.
That's the problem with Texans. They imagine it's going to be like a movie with a stand off.
Well guess what? Life is not a fucking movie. If an Islamic extremist wants to kill you with a truck, he'd do it while you weren't prepared.
Guns seem to take people's IQ down by 10 points or something. Giving you delusions where people only attack you when you're prepared. If guns are so great, why isn't the Middle East an epitome of peace? You have rebels and governments with weapons. What happened to your cosy fantasy where peace breaks out because of guns?
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
It shows the constitution is not written in stone, you dumb cunt. And that the constitution is not above being changed one way or the other. Are Americans really so retarded?
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
they will now attempt it with no knowledge and end up hurting themselves or others. Way to go Google.
Downside is what? If someone is stupid enough to shoot themselves while trying to assemble a gun then Darwin would say he was too stupid to own one in the first place. This should be heavily supported by the 2nd amendment "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" types. Less stupid people is a good thing.