On July 12th, I published a video on the 2A Cops YouTube channel. It was a short video, barely more than six minutes long. In that video, I analyzed how another YouTube gun guy created his own bizarre malfunction with a Springfield Kuna. I not only explained how it happened to him, but I also replicated it a couple times.
Before I published the video, YouTube ran their normal checks to make sure there was no copyright infringements and that the video was “safe for ads.” Part of being “safe for ads” is that the video complies with YouTubes “Community Guidelines.” As with every video I upload, YouTube ran that safety check twice before confirming the video was indeed in compliance with their rules.
This morning, I received an email telling me that YouTube had completely removed that video from my channel. Not that they demonetized it, they removed it completely. The reason they provided was:
What we found
We think your content didn’t follow our firearms policy.
Content that facilitates the sale of certain regulated goods, like firearms, ammunition, or prohibited firearm accessories, isn’t allowed on YouTube. Read policy
You can see an example around 00:03:51, although there could be other instances.
You can see the exact timestamp that they provided me, and the supposed reason. Below is a screen grab of that exact moment in the video from the appeal screen as I attempted to point out their idiocy to them.
At no point in the video do I remotely try to sell anything. I do not mention any of the channel sponsors. I don’t even have any live ammo around and am instead using snap caps in the demo.
In fact, the entire video can be considered a safety video as I am demonstrating how to avoid artificially inducing a malfunction.
Seeing as my video does not in fact violate any of their rules, I appealed the decision, knowing in my head doing so was in vain.
You see, this is not the first time I have had the anti-gun liberals at YouTube mess with one of my videos claiming (completely incorrectly) that it violates one of their rules. I knew appealing it would go nowhere, and about two hours later they confirmed that in a second email.
Since there is no way to further appeal the removal of that video, and since republishing it would likely result in my receiving a strike by YouTube, I guess I will publish that video here instead.
Here is the full video that YouTube killed
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