YouTube Terminates Brownells YouTube Channel — Then Relents
UPDATE: At approximately 6:00 pm CT, the Brownells YouTube Channel was restored. We don’t know why or how — but apparently protests from Brownells customers many have played a part in getting YouTube to relent. Brownells just issued this statement via Facebook:
PREVIOUSLY…
The Brownells YouTube channel has been terminated (shut down) without warning or notice from either YouTube or its parent company, Google. On June 9, 2018, at roughly 2:00 am, the Brownells channel was pulled from YouTube. This removed ALL Brownells YouTube content, including videos that cover firearms safety, hunting skills, firearms maintenance, and marksmanship. YouTube didn’t simply block Brownells’ gun sales-related videos — it shut down the entire Brownells channel, which had offered nearly 1800 helpful videos. The Brownells channel had acquired over 67,000 subscribers since its launch in January 2007.
History of YouTube Policies on Firearms Content
No specific reason for the Brownells shut-down was provided by YouTube, but this is part of a policy shift by YouTube. For quite some time, YouTube has been de-monitizing firearms-centric YouTube channels. As a result, gun video producers no longer receive advertising revenues, or receive a fraction of what they were once paid. Then in late March, YouTube announced tough new policies limiting the type of firearms content allowed. Gun content producers feared YouTube’s new policies might doom their channels. With the Brownells ban, it appears those fears were correct…
Ars Technica reported: “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. YouTube took similar action after the Las Vegas shooting last year by banning gun-modification tutorials.
‘We routinely make updates and adjustments to our enforcement guidelines across all of our policies,’ a YouTube representative said in a statement to Bloomberg. ‘While we’ve long prohibited the sale of firearms, we recently notified creators of updates we will be making around content promoting the sale or manufacture of firearms and their accessories’.”
Current YouTube Policies on Firearms Content are displayed below. (Read More).
Policies on Content Featuring Firearms
YouTube prohibits certain kinds of content featuring firearms. Specifically, we don’t allow content that:
Intends to sell firearms or certain firearms accessories through direct sales (e.g., private sales by individuals) or links to sites that sell these items. These accessories include but may not be limited to accessories that enable a firearm to simulate automatic fire or convert a firearm to automatic fire (e.g., bump stocks, gatling triggers, drop-in auto sears, conversion kits), and high capacity magazines (i.e., magazines or belts carrying more than 30 rounds).
Provides instructions on manufacturing a firearm, ammunition, high capacity magazine, homemade silencers/suppressors, or certain firearms accessories such as those listed above. This also includes instructions on how to convert a firearm to automatic or simulated automatic firing capabilities.
Shows users how to install the above-mentioned accessories or modifications.
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To our friends at Alphabet – the guys who own Google, which owns YouTube:
You want regulation of your business?
Because this is how you get regulation.
I can only imagine that Senators Grassley and Ernst of Iowa have gotten a few phone calls and emails.
Well … that is the liberal left for you. The fascist show their true colors and what they think of free exchange of ideas and thought.
We might have to change the definition of “freedom” in the dictionnary
Florian
Come on Full30! https://www.full30.com
To hell with these communists!
Brownells videos remain available on their own website – see https://www.brownells.com/guntech/default.htm – and, if you search, also on YT. Seems possibly “only” the front door was closed. TBD.
Funny thing, you can search YouTube for Brownell and guess what all the videos come up. Who is right about this?
Editor: You logged in right after the Brownells Channel was restored in late afternoon on Sunday. The Channel was indeed “terminated” per YouTube’s message, starting in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday.
We don’t know why YouTube relented… perhaps this was done to gauge the response…
YouTube channel 8541 Tactical received a community strike today for a video he posted seven years ago. John has 83k Subs.
the war is near not over.
all guns will be banned on mainstream media.
if we want feedom we must fight for it not only in court but also in media.
but new platform, like youtube, with gun channels will be needed.
but now NRA should push on youtube for banning such channels.
THE ONLY WAY IS TO BAN :
– Youtube
– Google
– Facebook
– Tweeter
– The TV
And returning to the real life, meeting people, living your life, being different and becoming HAPPY again with real friends !
To communicate, use a pencile, a piece of paper and a stamp, it takes 3 days but it is real. For the pictures, return to the real film, nobody will use your privacy anymore…
DISCONNECTING OR WELCOME TO GATACA
Best regards from Switzerland
Florian
You Tube is wrong. Stop playing god because your views don’t agree with mine.
Already stopped using Facebook. Is you tube next?
Larry Ortman
The writing was on the wall when Laura Ingraham had to apologize to the little piece of crap Davey Hogg and his LGBT shaved head cuban harlot. It was like Ann Coulter kneeling before Al Franken: unbelievable! Boycott all the vicious bastards who want to grab our guns.
This all started when Trump got elected and the poor liberal loosers realized why… They spent all thier energy controlling the narative on mainstream TV but not YouTube. All the while YouTubers voiced thier anti Hilary opinions that ultimately influenced the election. The media was in shock and so were the Libs.
So now they again need to control the narative.. So they are going after the anti narative voices on YouTube.
It’s not just gun channels either. They are going after anyone who is not regurgitatine the “officiel narative” or whatever than means at the time.
Shutting down YouTubers is nothing if not a direct attack on the US Constitutional rights to free speech and the right to firearms.
The news and youtubers can demonize firearms all day long but YouTube will not allow the counter opinion to be heard and the only information available on firearms will be negative.
What a failing democracy it all is.
Someone said that ; “Evil triumphs when good men do nothing”. In this case , good men did do something , and the result became immediately apparent .
This is the tact , and action we must take every time the anti-gun left makes these attacks on our freedoms . It is up to us , in the final analysis , to continue to fight these liberal progressives at every turn , and not give in . Not one single inch .