YouTube isn’t a stranger to banning firearm-related content, and now they’ve broadened their reach to include a number of different things from videos showing how to install bump stocks to teaching how to reload ammunition.
Under the new restrictions, accessories that cannot be featured in videos that intend “to sell firearms or certain firearms accessories through direct sales” or “links to sites that sell these items” include those that enable a firearm to simulate automatic fire or convert a firearm to automatic fire (including bump stocks, gatling triggers, drop-in auto sears, and conversion kits), and high-capacity magazines. Videos can also no longer provide instructions on converting firearms to automatic or simulated automatic firing, manufacturing firearms, ammunition, silencers, and the aforementioned accessories. Lastly, videos cannot show users how to install these accessories.
YouTube doesn’t want videos on it’s platform that “have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death,”…..
“YouTube doesn’t allow content that encourages or promotes violence or dangerous acts that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death …” said a letter from Youtube to Spike’s Tactical that the gun manufacturer posted on Facebook. “The only depictions of such activities that we may allow need to be educational or documentary in nature and shouldn’t be designed to help or encourage others to imitate them … Please be aware that you are prohibited from accessing, possessing or creating any other YouTube accounts.”
If this is the case, they should probably ban these types of videos as well:
Speeding down the highway on a motorcycle, risking other lives on the road
Chainsaw on a rope. Need we say more?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyWzk31p3lk
A guy downing an entire bottle of Jack Daniel’s
But have no fear, (ex)-YouTubers, because there’s a place where you can do everything that you want to do in the firearms world, because YouTube clearly isn’t that place anymore:
Atlanta,GA – March 23, 2018. Popular YouTube Firearms Channels are under attack!! In breaking news this week, YouTube continues its assault on the Firearms industry by banning some firearms demonstration videos and shutting down channels that promote the sale of firearms.
WHAT NOW?
Spread the word to our shooting sports community: GetZone.com, a leading digital platform for hunters and shooting sports enthusiasts, welcomes YouTube Gun Related Channels that promote legal firearms, demonstration of their use and lawful sales.
GetZone.com is home to several original video series such as “Ruger’s American New Shooter Academy”, “American Nomads”, “Ruger Range Drills”, “In the Zone: Century Arms Hog Hunting”, “Finding Fearless: Women’s Self Defense Training Course”, “Turkey Hunting in Montana”, “The Good Fight” and more!
GetZone.com promotes safe shooting, encourages responsible firearms ownership and supports wildlife conservation through conscientious hunters across the globe. Over the past 24 hours since YouTube announced their new policies, GetZone.com has struck multiple deals to feature content creators who have been impacted. In addition to this content, GetZone.com will be adding further social feedback functionality to the site, moderated by users, to give the firearms community a place to communicate.
As attacks on our 2nd Amendment continue, it is more important than ever for the outdoor industry to have a trusted, dedicated video platform like GetZone.com.
If you’re a banned YouTuber or you know someone who is, now is the time to contact GetZone.com’s editor, Sammy Reese, to get your videos hosted on GetZone.com. Don’t let all that hard work and money you invested into creating those videos go to waste. Share them with GetZone.com’s viewers, on a platform that supports the 2nd Amendment.
“While YouTube continues to shut down gun related content there is a tremendous amount of quality firearms, training and hunting information that producers need to distribute and viewers need to see,” said Sammy Reese, Editorial Director of GetZone.com.
GetZone.com is already an established pro-2A site with proven traffic and demand that will allow producers to monetize their content and remain in front of the right audiences. Our ability to scale makes us an integral option for editorial content producers as well as manufacturers and information/service providers.
To learn more about opportunities to move your channel to GetZone.com, contact Sammy Reese at [email protected].
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• Christen Everly, Vice President of Sales, [email protected], 612.306.2274
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GetZone.com has grown into one of the largest video platforms dedicated to the outdoors. With online video content expected to account for 80% of global internet traffic (Cisco), and the average user spending 88% more time on a website with video (Mist Media), it is more important than ever for the outdoors industry to have a trusted, dedicated video platform. GetZone.com partners with the outdoor industry’s top video content creators to deliver the best in hunting, fishing, firearms, and the outdoors. This exclusive content lives on GetZone.com as well as across the entire Media Lodge network of websites.
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