Comment by COGlory | Hacker News Reader

Comment by COGlory | Hacker News Reader

>He said that his YouTube representative told him that going forward, firearms creators will get a strike and have videos removed if they:

>Insert magazines that are greater than 30 rounds into a firearm

>“Modify” firearms (YouTube’s definition of “modifying” includes installing accessories such as lights, hand guards, optics, and silencers

This makes no sense. I don't know of any municipality that bans > 30rd magazines. There are many that ban > 10, but who is banning > 30???

Also, you can posses the magazine, you can film yourself in possession of it, but you cannot insert it into the gun? That doesn't make sense.

Obvious political moves that they are trying to shoehorn into some sort of coherent policy after the fact.

Also, while much of gun YouTube is quite cringey, (I say this as someone who owns > a dozen guns), going after Forgotten Weapons is laughable. He is not political in any way. He's solely an extremely professional, extremely thorough historian, with higher quality, more wholesome content than 99.9% of Youtube.

Also also: are movie trailers that depict a gun being loaded with a > 30 rd magazine now banned? Or movie trailers that show any kind of modified weapon? How about video game footage?

I am not pro-guns for civillians (I live in Australia, different society, different discussion), but I do love the engineering and I really enjoy Forgotten Weapons. That someone could watch the gratuitous violence in action films but not be allowed to watch a calm demonstration of the engineering and history of firearms is just hypocrisy. No different to banning books of historical significance because you don't like the content.

It's also frustrating that these policies are so often retroactively applied. Add all this onto an entirely non-functional music and copyright system and YouTube has become very antagonistic to creators. It is not just that their policies are getting worse, it's also just very difficult to comply, and even when you comply you still get sent through the automated flag systems once in a while.

  > Also also: are movie trailers that depict a gun being loaded with a > 30 rd magazine now banned? Or movie trailers that show any kind of modified weapon? How about video game footage?

No, of course not. There is no reason to expect consistency from an illogical policy.

> Also also: are movie trailers that depict a gun being loaded with a > 30 rd magazine now banned? Or movie trailers that show any kind of modified weapon? How about video game footage?

Rules do not apply to establishment corporate entities. You can find SNL sketches that use the N word on youtube. Youtube rents videos on their platform that has racist, etc language. Late night "comedy" shows could use vulgar terms/jokes without getting demonetized, banned, etc. It's just you can't. It's about reigning in the voice of the little guys and protecting corporate interests. Remember when youtube was about giving a platform to "you" - the little guys? The funny thing is that these guys support banning tiktok and giving youtube a greater monopoly. They, of all people, should be demanding more options. Where are they going to go once rumble does the same thing. After all, rumble is controlled by the same interests that control youtube.

SNL skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ

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