YouTube is placing more restrictions on weapons-related videos, focusing
on guns with new, forthcoming policy changes. According to a Bloomberg
report,
YouTube intends to ban videos that "promote or link to websites selling
firearms and accessories," including bump stocks, beginning this April.
The
new policy will also prohibit instructional videos that detail how to build firearms. These restrictions come over a month after the school shooting in
Parkland, Florida and just a few days before the March for Our Lives
rally organized by the student survivors of the Parkland shooting.
YouTube took similar action after the Las Vegas shooting last year by
banning gun-modification tutorials. While some may see YouTube's new firearms policy as ambiguously
worded, it's the forthcoming implementation that will get the most
reaction from firearms channels. Plenty of YouTubers have seen their
content demonetized or removed due to the way YouTube's algorithm and
moderators filter out potentially offensive content and content that
goes against Community Guidelines. It's possible that gun-related videos
that do not explicitly violate the new rules will get caught up in the
first rounds of YouTube's upcoming purge. YouTube has placed a number of
new restrictions on its content in the past year, ever since the
ad-pocalypse
resulted in many companies pulling advertising from the online video
site. Topics such as hate speech, terrorism, impersonation, and
cyberbullying have seen new, overarching rules that have affected
YouTubers large and small...
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