YouTube Bans More Firearms Videos Amid Gun Debate
22 March 2018 - 6:56AM
Dow Jones News
By Douglas MacMillan
YouTube said it would ban videos relating to the sale or
assembly of guns and certain gun accessories, as tech giants face
growing pressure to limit the promotion of firearms in the wake of
the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
The world's largest video site, a division of Alphabet Inc.'s
Google, said this week it would prohibit all videos which link
directly to sites that sell guns or accessories known as bump
stocks, which allow certain firearms to fire as rapidly as machine
guns. Bloomberg News reported the policy shift, which YouTube
posted on its website on Monday.
Videos showing how to build a gun or install bump-stock devices
will also be restricted under the new rules, which the company said
it will begin enforcing in April.
YouTube already bans content explicitly promoting the sale of
guns, a YouTube spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
"We routinely make updates and adjustments to our enforcement
guidelines across all of our policies," the spokeswoman said.
"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."
Write to Douglas MacMillan at douglas.macmillan@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 21, 2018 15:41 ET (19:41 GMT)
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