Tag: YouTube

Eviction Notice

YouTube Has Removed Big Horn Armory… The strikes came after YouTube quietly updated its firearms policy. The new version effectively prohibits the handling of firearms in videos – which means virtually everything we’ve ever published is now a violation of its standards, regardless of when it was posted or whether it complied with the rules that existed at the time. [More]

How widespread is this, really? Will we see mass content removals now? Will Hollywood be exempt?

So my family video may be in violation after all…?

Will “GunTubers” be switching to Rumble…?

Down the Tubes

Screen shot of page with video I used in las t post:

That’s as tame as I’ve seen– others have been a lot more explicit, forcing a quick reaction when trying to watch something with my three-year-old granddaughter on my knee. I’ve contacted them before, a few times now, and always get a hollow, no-reply response:

They know about it:

Explicit ads are plaguing YouTube and it’s only getting worse

And they’re incentivized not to fix it:

What can you do to protect yourself from inappropriate ads on YouTube? The easiest (but probably not the most pocket-friendly) way to protect yourself from bad ads on YouTube is to get a YouTube Premium subscription.

These are the same bastards who told me “We wanted to let you know our team reviewed your content, and we think it violates our child safety policy,”about an innocent family video sent as a Christmas gift to my wife and my parents.

UPDATE

And again…

Like the Scorpion Told the Frog…

Why is Wired effectively providing a how-to guide on building a copycat weapon, especially when it’s being served up to Luigi Mangione’s fanbase of unhinged Marxist leftists? [More]

Probably for the same reason the witch told the flying monkeys to go and destroy…

You have to understand that Wired is owned by the same nepobillionaire who owns Teen Anal Sex Vogue, and as for YouTube making an exception to their rule, well, look who owns them.

They think they’ll forever be unaccountable, and that what they are abetting to bring about will always find them useful.

[Via bondmen]

Under the Gunfluence

GOA CONDEMNS NEW RADICAL ANTI-GUN POLICY AT YOUTUBE — BROUGHT TO YOU BY ALVIN BRAGG AND ANTI-GUN LOBBY [More]

“As Stephen King said, ‘If your school has banned a book, get to a bookstore or library and find out what it is they don’t want you to know,'” said a comnment poster to this.

So, see? YouTube still allows teaching other important life skills.

The Man Who Would Be King

How instructive to see “New York’s very own” PIX 11 pay so much attention to noted subject matter expert East Harlem resident Arlene on this.

“I think they shouldn’t be learning that on no video,” indeed.

So Fat Alvin presumes the power to coerce rules affecting the entire world… Hey, if you believe you don’t have to respect the Second Amendment, why should the First give you any problems?

Not that Google respects either.

[Via Jess]

Brought to You By…

I’m trying to figure out if it’s my cookies and browser history causing this or the subject matter of the videos I’m trying to access, but more and more every time I try to watch a gun influencer on YouTube, Mark Barden’s showing up first. Is this happening to any of you?

As with Manuel Oliver, as sympathetic as we may feel, his “solution” is antithetical to freedom and unacceptable, and his loss does not give him a claim against our rights.

Starting off the video with these ads undermines the presenter’s work, especially with people who may not be informed and may be otherwise receptive. So I have some questions, because I don’t know how YouTube ad policies work.

Is it intentional placement? Does the client request it? Does the YouTube account where the ad is being placed have any say? If so, do they allow it because monetization is monetization? If not, could they reject it?

Conversely, would a “gun rights” group be able to have their ads placed at the start of gungrab group videos? Has anbody ever seen that happen?

And is this a directed policy by Google/YouTube to deliberately muddle messages they want to suppress, and inject their own?

[Video link submitted via Jess]

Welcome to the Party, Pal

The New Way YouTube is Going After 2A Content [Watch]

As opposed to the “old way”? I had a genuine original news video, non-monetized, mind you, taken from a car, of ATF trying to fire Fast and Furious whistleblower Vince Cefalu that got blocked by Google-owned YouTube after it started getting noticed on bogus “copyright” grounds because you could hear the radio playing a song in the background:

There’s a reason I went through all the contortions to leave Google–owned Blogger and find a platform safe from censorship, and since I don’t do ads here, there’s nothing to demonetize.

Screwing my findability on work published elsewhere is another story.

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Idealess Enough

And the rifle, the weapon that was used, the murder weapon … it was so unusual that the investigators when they were looking into it, and the investigators are all, you know, very familiar with firearms, right, knew all the guns, but when they were looking at this gun, they were like “I have no idea how this is loaded,” the investigators had to watch YouTube videos… [Watch]

So they turn to the “gun community” for help…?

[Via MG]

Ready to Rumble

YouTube Censorship Of Suppressor Content & Wholesale Deletion of Creators [More]

Well, it’s not like the CEO came here for the liberty…

While it’s understandable and necessary to endorse uncensored alternatives like Rumble, the fact remains that I have accounts on Truth Social, Gab, and MeWe and don’t get anywhere near the admittedly limited exposure I get on Facebook and Twitter.

[Via Jess]

Montana Warns YouTube of Consequences for Acting as a Democrat Proxy to Censor Speech

Big Tech argues they deserve exemptions because they are not content providers. Acting as content deniers, suppressing anything that does not advance a state-approved “progressive” narrative, and facilitating the universal spread of that which does, effectively amounts to the same thing. [More]

How is removing legal content at the demand of Democrat politicians not a de facto First Amendment violation?

A Star is Born?

Kyle Rittenhouse launches YouTube channel for ‘great content’ on GUNS and the Second Amendment as the 19-year-old Kenosha shooter notches up thousands of subscribers in just hours [More]

Except for wondering why he chose YouTube instead of a non-hostile alternative, I’ll reserve judgment. Lemme see what he actually knows and understands first.

[Via bondmen]

A Slap on the Wrist

Leftist YouTuber Ethan Klein Suspended After NRA Bombing ‘Joke’ [More]

It’s not like he’s a “conservative” who deserves to be permanently demonetized and de-platformed over wrong-thinking.

[Via Michael G]