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  • OFFascist

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    Saw this post on Full30's facebook page.

    https://www.facebook.com/FULL30TV/posts/857380044469434

    I received an email from my Google/YouTube rep at 9:30pm tonight. He requested an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss YouTube's new policies regarding firearms content.

    This is really bad. Please read this carefully and a couple of times, and let it sink in. 1/3rd of my videos or more will need to be removed. If you don't have them removed in 30 days, your channel will be deleted for policy violations.

    I wish this were a joke. It's not. I feel horrible for reloading channels or NFA channels. Showing how to make ammo or even showing the installation of a silencer is prohibited. Hell, showing the use of a magazine larger than 30 rounds is prohibited! Belt feds are a no go.

    I'll try to find out as much as I can from my rep tomorrow. I mean, are legal machine guns and silencers being demonstrated really going to get us account strikes now?

    Please read this guys... I'm in shock, but then I knew this day wold come. It looks like it's here in 30 days. I'm at a total loss for words. ~Tim

    https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7667605

    Policies on content featuring firearms
    YouTube prohibits certain kinds of content featuring firearms. Specifically, we don’t allow content that:

    Intends to sell firearms or certain firearms accessories through direct sales (e.g., private sales by individuals) or links to sites that sell these items. These accessories include but may not be limited to accessories that enable a firearm to simulate automatic fire or convert a firearm to automatic fire (e.g., bump stocks, gatling triggers, drop-in auto sears, conversion kits), and high capacity magazines (i.e., magazines or belts carrying more than 30 rounds).
    Provides instructions on manufacturing a firearm, ammunition, high capacity magazine, homemade silencers/suppressors, or certain firearms accessories such as those listed above. This also includes instructions on how to convert a firearm to automatic or simulated automatic firing capabilities.
    Shows users how to install the above-mentioned accessories or modifications.

    So by their wording if you video shows a mag change your vid could be banned.
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    jrbfishn

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    That covers about 95 percent of the videos I watch. I wonder how long it will take for someone to come up with a viable alternative?

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    busykngt

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    I wonder how long it will take for someone to come up with a viable alternative?

    That’s exactly what I was wondering too! If YouTube [Google] is gona go all “politically correct” anti-gun on us, seems like it just opens the door for a competitor to step in and fill the void.

    Personally, I was always a little surprised that You Tube allowed videos on field dressing deer, skinning squirrels, and plucking turkeys anyways.
     
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    busykngt

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    I think a sufficiently competitive environment (& financially viable) could be created without necessarily being on the same scale {size-wise} as You Tube. Of course, once they got successful, they’d have to resist being “bought out” and eliminated as a competitor. The old, “money talks and bs walks” thing...
     

    busykngt

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    Isn't full30.com a video site that competes against Youtube.

    Thanks MP, I wasn’t aware of them. Not sure their software structure (blog style) is design to complete against something like YouTube but a very decent site to visit nevertheless. Hope they meet with success! (They need an “App” to set up on a mobile devise home screen).
     

    benenglish

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    If you hit the "No" button for feedback, the page asks you about the new policy "How can we improve it?" I left the following:
    You can improve this policy by entirely eliminating it.

    Censorship is almost never helpful. Full30 and BitChute are probably ecstatic about this, though, since you'll drive lots of content to them, content mostly consumed by affluent, engaged consumers who actually buy things. I'm surprised you want so badly to dump those viewers but, hey, it's your platform and you can incrementally marginalize it any way you want.

    Upon reflection, then, please keep up this style of policy-making. The more of this you do, the faster a replacement will come along and mostly supplant YT for serious users, i.e. the grown-ups.
     

    Brains

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    I'm fed up with YouTube anyway. They have a supposedly curated "YT Kids" app, that has some of the most genuinely creepy and inappropriate videos ever to be shown to a child.
     

    TxStetson

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    If you hit the "No" button for feedback, the page asks you about the new policy "How can we improve it?" I left the following:
    I was not as eloquent in my statements to them, I said pretty much the same thing.

    Since you have decided to censor what I can watch on YouTube, I have decided that I no longer have a need for YouTube in my life. I have already cancelled my YouTube red subscription, and now I will be finding other alternatives to watch videos. I am certain your censorship will help your completion improve their service in a more timely manner. I’m really impressed with your CEO’s touching speech about how important free speech is. Too bad it was pure lip service.
     

    Lunyfringe

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    If you hit the "No" button for feedback, the page asks you about the new policy "How can we improve it?" I left the following:

    Here's mine:
    You can improve on the policy by not joining the likes of Stalin, Chairman Mao and Nazi Germany by committing the 21st century equivalent to book burning. It's good that your policy is not backed by law, so your competitors can benefit by hosting content for grown-ups. The content you are banning is not illegal, unlike the virtue-signalling videos where someone cuts an ar15 incorrectly, creating an illegal SBR in the process. For all of Google's espousing of free speech, they apparently only mean speech they agree with.

    I look forward to your competitors hosting more content so I don't have to visit sites that don't support freedom.
     
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