YouTube is tightening restrictions on videos featuring firearms and accessories, entering the intensifying gun control debate. YouTube has removed gun instruction and shooting videos. Under the new rules, to be enforced starting in April, YouTube will prohibit videos that link to sites selling firearms or gun accessories. A cursory search on Thursday revealed tens of millions of videos on YouTube teaching viewers how to make guns (both real and toy varieties) and firearm accessories like silencers. “Their policies are not very clear-cut and they are arbitrary,” Karl Kasada, co-owner of InRange TV, a YouTube channel featuring firearm videos, told the Journal.

Source: Huffington Post March 22, 2018 13:52 UTC