YouTube shutting down gun channels :-(

[npwinder]

I couldn't find my old login info from a few years ago. Went there this morning and there was a signup tab. Signed right up, verified email and was good to go.

If you want to upload your own videos you have to invited to do so.

It doesn't appear that many channels post regularly on Full30. Demolition Ranch hasn't posted since April, Mac hasn't posted since September. If you look at the list of All Channels, most of those don't show up under the recently uploaded going a few months back. When you can watch everything on youtube and not full30, it makes it hard to migrate over.

Guns are also far from the only thing I'm watching on Youtube as well. I'd venture to guess that would go for others as well.

 

[actaeon277]

They mess with Hickock45 I'm going be perturbed!!!!

They have messed with him.
I think we have a thread somewhere around here about it.

 

[actaeon277]

Of course, now I can't find it.

 

[fatvette]

I use duckduckgo, they don't track your searches.

Wow I have never even heard of this search engine. Thanks

 

[sgreen3]

If you want to upload your own videos you have to invited to do so.

It doesn't appear that many channels post regularly on Full30. Demolition Ranch hasn't posted since April, Mac hasn't posted since September. If you look at the list of All Channels, most of those don't show up under the recently uploaded going a few months back. When you can watch everything on youtube and not full30, it makes it hard to migrate over.

Guns are also far from the only thing I'm watching on Youtube as well. I'd venture to guess that would go for others as well.

You are correct, I inquired about getting my channel on there and was all but laughed at lol. They look to the YouTube subscriber count of a channel and then give invitations based on that from what I was told...

 

[bwframe]

Hopefully Full30 will take off. Maybe others? I'm sure it takes a lot of pipe to make a site like that work?

 

[BrettonJudy7]

The old days of Youtube were about independent people who were just posting random or funny videos. There are no longer viral videos like 'Charlie bit my finger' or 'sneezing panda', but now we have seen the rise of the "content creator". People are no longer just posting random videos for entertainment purposes, but now they are posting videos for the intention of a paycheck, so we have seen higher production value videos, and a lot of content creators doing amazing things. This can also be a good thing. You introduce money, and the free market system works its magic, but you're also right about the monetization. We will never see videos posted anymore, because of random funniness, but instead it will all be about the product and the views.

 

[Christow19]

They better not shut down Hickock45! The best gun reviewer on YouTube

 

[bwframe]

Just thought I'd note that YouTube must be listening to at least some of their viewers. They are now back to listing the "published on" date. It was terribly annoying to attempt to determine how current the videos were when they stopped this.

 

[wakproductions]

I think this will eventually end up in the courts. Youtube may be considered a Quasi-public space. Where I think the court could get them in trouble is the fact that Youtube openly allows certain political ideas to be broadcast, but are being selective in which political speech is allowed. SCOTUS could resolve this and force them to disallow screening based on political ideas and have more clear policies on the type of content which could be removed.

https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-01/54-quasi-public-places.html

I am very concerned about domain registrars getting emboldened to take independent websites offline because they disagree with the content. Obama really screwed us by moving ICANN to the jurisdiction of some international NGO instead of under the US government where free speech would be protected.

 

[Ark]

I am very concerned about domain registrars getting emboldened to take independent websites offline because they disagree with the content. Obama really screwed us by moving ICANN to the jurisdiction of some international NGO instead of under the US government where free speech would be protected.

lol you think for a second that the US government would use domain registration power in a way that respects free speech? Also the internet is an international good and should not be policed according to the morality and business interests of a single nation. Man, if you think the government is all up in your web browsing business now...

 

[Ark]

We as consumers probably should have thought about this before we demanded ALL content hosted in ONE location FOREVER and then went crying to Google expecting them to keep our feelings safe from all the objectionable content out there. We wanted convenience, then we wanted protection, and now 90% of the internet's content is under the control of three companies.

And in any case, net neutrality is going bye-bye soon, so welcome to the age of the internet being censored according to which content is most sanitized for advertisers, most popular to the mean idiot, and least politically controversial. We ain't seen nothing yet.

The most galling part of this whole thing is that Youtube thinks bump stocks are a problem and will censor content creators as a result, but they won't do anything about the Youtube Kids cancer, the borderline child porn fetish content, or the endless ocean of de facto softcore porn. Yeah, bump stock videos are the problem.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

lol you think for a second that the US government would use domain registration power in a way that respects free speech? Also the internet is an international good and should not be policed according to the morality and business interests of a single nation. Man, if you think the government is all up in your web browsing business now...

I agree. I compare the internet today with the open range of the American west. Someday people will look back on these times and wonder why it all had to change.

 

[Ark]

I agree. I compare the internet today with the open range of the American west. Someday people will look back on these times and wonder why it all had to change.

I feel that way about the internet of the 2000s. Unregulated free speech was an ethos among internet users.

Then all the normies had to start using it and demanding all the objectionable content be cleaned up, and governments and corporations started realizing that unregulated speech was a threat to their power.

 

[worddoer]

Well...It's official. At some point in the last day or 2 YouTube shut down James Yeager's channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJimfyIOFM3Yaot_V8bFLPQ

 

[worddoer]

Makes me wonder who will be next???

 

[canterbc]

MAC, hickok45, Colion Noir and Demo Ranch are still there. Maybe they just don’t like Yeager. Can’t say I disagree with them.

 

[JAL]

Apparently James Yeager ran afoul of YouTube's content restrictions with a podcast video he put up yesterday interviewing a number of people. He discusses it briefly on his Facebook page and references one of the people he interviewed. It's apparently the second time an interview video ran afoul of YouTube's content policies:

[video=facebook_share;1542419435834849]https://www.facebook.com/JamesYeagerofTacticalResponse/videos/1542419435834849/[/video]

I've got no dog in this (or his) fight. Don't consider this an endorsement or recommendation by me for what he's asking people with YouTube accounts to do in response.

John

 

[jedi]

So what was the violation???

 

[JAL]

So what was the violation???

Did you watch Yeager's Facebook video? He made some cryptic references to a podcast video he posted on his YouTube account. You can go to his Facebook account and ask him . . . by posting your question there . . . or by messaging him through Facebook.

As I already posted, I've got no dog in his fight and not any enough interest in what he did to get banned to pursue the details. Perhaps someone else knows.

John