YouTube shutting down gun channels :-(

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[video=youtube;I-t9PYxIByM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-t9PYxIByM[/video]

 

[worddoer]

Yeager got another strike.....this one on the new channel he setup.

[video=youtube;9as0wqvDs0Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9as0wqvDs0Q&t=0s&index=30&list=WL[/video]

 

[worddoer]

Practically Tactical just got a strike for an optics video.....

https://www.facebook.com/pg/practicallytactical/posts/?ref=page_internal

 

[actaeon277]

Unless viewers, advertisrs, and posters leave in droves, YouTube will continue down this road.

 

[jamil]

Unless viewers, advertisrs, and posters leave in droves, YouTube will continue down this road.

There's a culture war happening where YouTube is definitely, firmly, on one side of it. I think they've demonstrated sufficiently that they're ideologically far left. They'd be fine with just de-platforming everyone they disagree with, except they don't want to lose half their viewers because $$. It seems like this is a strategic way to straddle the line.

There's definitely demand for a video sharing service that is foremost dedicated to free speech (notwithstanding copyright issues). The problem is, there's a bigger demand for being on a huge platform. Big YouTubers aren't going to jump ship unless what they jump to is close to is at least close to what they have with YouTube.

It's certainly not just gun channels that are threatened. It's every channel has any content that's not politically correct. Tim Pool, for crying out loud, got a strike. But since then, he's noticeably self-censored his content, at least right after he got the strike. I don't know how far it will take before YouTubers are pushed far enough for an alternative to be equitable.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

There's a culture war happening where YouTube is definitely, firmly, on one side of it. I think they've demonstrated sufficiently that they're ideologically far left. They'd be fine with just de-platforming everyone they disagree with, except they don't want to lose half their viewers because $$. It seems like this is a strategic way to straddle the line.

There's definitely demand for a video sharing service that is foremost dedicated to free speech (notwithstanding copyright issues). The problem is, there's a bigger demand for being on a huge platform. Big YouTubers aren't going to jump ship unless what they jump to is close to is at least close to what they have with YouTube.

It's certainly not just gun channels that are threatened. It's every channel has any content that's not politically correct. Tim Pool, for crying out loud, got a strike. But since then, he's noticeably self-censored his content, at least right after he got the strike. I don't know how far it will take before YouTubers are pushed far enough for an alternative to be equitable.

Eh, maybe.

I'm willing to chalk some of it up to being generally inept and not knowing how to do the job properly and consistently.

It's not only the "right" that falls victim to false strikes/takedowns/demonetization. It's pretty prevalent on the other side, or even those neutral channels.

Some of the false takedowns can be initiated by users... that's the problem. There are more "internet savvy" types on the Left than on the Right... and they're the most likely to seek out methods of silencing ideas they don't like.

YouTube is just incompetent... but it's an easy scapegoat for people on the Right to claim The Man is trying to shut them down... when, in reality, it could just be some overzealous YouTube scrub employee or a brigade from Leftist viewers.

 

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Following Negative Publicity, YouTube Restores Brownells' Channel - The Truth About Guns


https://www.youtube.com/user/brownellsinc

 

[jamil]

I like the messaging there. Get your YouTube channel shut down. Patrons flood YouTube with complaints. Channel reinstated. Discount as thanks.

 

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[video=youtube;8c93QEPK_kc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c93QEPK_kc[/video]

 

[worddoer]

YouTube Update.....

[video=youtube;gAeSCO7q35g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAeSCO7q35g&list=WL&index=2[/video]

 

[Ark]

Five bucks say Nickelodeon Girl's anti-NRA extremist group has some people on the payroll to abuse Youtube's reporting system and try to get gun channels taken down.

 

[Floivanus]

YouTube Update.....

[video=youtube;gAeSCO7q35g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAeSCO7q35g&list=WL&index=2[/video]

It’s on the subject, but bear with me a moment.

when fake-book banned Infowars and Alex Jones, the story is that Zuckerborg was under a ton of pressure to do so because account strikes were coming in by the boatload, in something called “brigading” a coordinated effort by a group of people to report any and all content that a user creates, these channels typically have what are known as “hate subscribers” that subscribe just to get notifications of new content, rally the troops and hit the report button, it happens with quite a few of them.

your bigger channels no doubt have them, and have the issue.