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YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate

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YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, this week 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. Additionally, YouTube said it will prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms. The video site, owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, has faced intense criticism for hosting videos about guns, bombs and other deadly weapons.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...rm-sales-and-how-to-videos-prompting-backlash

Well, I'm done with youtube. Piss ant move on their part.
 
I do enjoy some firearm related channels such as old Hickock, so I hope it doesn’t impact people like him and especially those that may be gun store related but who also teach safety and good practice.

As much as I think America may overdo things on how easily a person may purchase a firearm, I am an enthusiast, especially vintage weapons.

But YouTube does have a tendency to do things like this at the behest of their advertisers as that’s pretty much the core component that makes the entire platform run.
 
Youtube being retarded, vol 32.
 
bearpoker said:
I'd have to have more details about what they ban to form an opinion. I question banning videos demonstrating gun assembly, for example. If I have a gun, I want to know exactly how it works. I want to be able to take it apart and put it back together. Not to mention that there is some disassembly involved in cleaning.
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One of my fave channels is taofladermaus and their amazing shotgun videos. They show the assembly of ammo.
 
That sucks. I love the FPS Russia vids and a whole lot of others. I hope one of their competitors sets up a vid upload site to compete- we need more choices in regards to these types of services.
 
Surrealistik said:
FDR liberal and I'm not at all a fan of suppressing the assembly information/tutorials specifically, though Google is within their rights to do so.

That said, I don't feel strongly enough about it to discontinue using YT.
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The only way to effect change is to make them hurt. I know it's just my little household, but I watch videos as I work, that's a few hours of less views a day. It can add up if enough people do it.
 
Renae said:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...rm-sales-and-how-to-videos-prompting-backlash

Well, I'm done with youtube. Piss ant move on their part.
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Youtube can control what they show and don't show and you don't have to watch or subscribe to youtube. No big thing either way. Now what youtube and any other organization or individual who just concentrates on guns or gun control as a way to stop mass killings isn't helping prevent them one bit. Until we are willing to delve deep into our society to find out what motivates a person, the cause, the reason behind someone going out to a school, mall, casino, any public place and start killing for just killing's sake, this stuff will continue on and on and on regardless of whatever legislation is passed.

Perhaps the means, the tool used will change, but mark my word, the killing will continue. Perhaps the different tool, means, will be more deadly, perhaps less deadly. One should remember the deadliest school killing of 45 was done with a bomb, not a gun in Michigan.
 
PoS said:
That sucks. I love the FPS Russia vids and a whole lot of others. I hope one of their competitors sets up a vid upload site to compete- we need more choices in regards to these types of services.
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Hey didn't that guy die recently?
Not pointing any fingers, I just seem to remember hearing he died, and dammit, I cannot remember what happened to him. He was a character.
I'll never forget when he demonstrated a machine gun that used shotgun shells.
Absolutely absurd piece of hardware but it did work.
 
Removable Mind said:
Not yet. Wanna see how easy it is to make a semi-automatic fire like an automatic without a bumpstock or any special attached apparatus? There’s tons of “educational” videos.

Not sure why my link isn’t showing the video, but should go to YouTube

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I have seen that, manual bumpfire. I wonder if it will become illegal to hold a gun in such a way?
 
According to YouTube they are banning videos that show how to illegally mod weapons to fire fully automatic and vidoes that show the installation of bumpfire stocks. As of now, most gun videos are still on youtube including videos that show why the ban on bumpfire stocks is rather silly.

 
Yea, as soon as there is a viable alternative to youtube, I will leave so fast and never look back. Youtube treats it's creators like complete crap all because they lack communication skills with their advertisers.

With quick and irresponsible decisions about their platform policies can quarter peoples livelihoods in an instant.... without warning. And they unevenly enforce their rules on a whim completely flipping peoples lives upside down.
 
They may be banning the gun videos but they still have DIY bomb making videos.
 
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