A bit of a problem

[Christel]

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7667605?hl=en

If this continues I can see this becoming a problem for the shooting world.

One could say just go elsewhere however if hosting then becomes a problem for independent websites due to content then where do we as shooters go?

This morning Ovenpaa was watching a video by Ian McCollum who was saying that if not allowed on youtube anymore he had plans for going forward.
I am crossing my fingers for a viable solution.

[dromia]

A lot of the youtube gun channels seem to be going here:

https://www.full30.com/

Personally I stopped using youtube ages ago but have looked at the odd thing on full30 and it seems OK.

[breacher]

Not sure if its a joke but I heard online that some US gun bloggers were now publishing their shooting videos via a porn website !

[breacher]

I have said this before..............what we need is a TV programme / series showing a shooting comp. With modern remote cameras / aerial drones and split screen formats there is no reason why we cannot have a watchable programme - especially with dynamic matches such as CSR or Speed Steels.

Get the idea into the mainstream that shooting is a SPORT and not just crime being reported on the news. If we can get the public seeing more sport than crime, we stand a chance.

I will do it ( even if it makes a loss ) if I ever have a lottery win. In the meantime, we have to convince some TV company to take a punt.

Looking at the biathalon on TV during the Winter Olympics I found it quite exciting watching the shooter and target on split screen etc

[Gh0st]

Not sure if its a joke but I heard online that some US gun bloggers were now publishing their shooting videos via a porn website !

Garrand Thumb? pretty sure i saw a Instagram story from him where he registered on Pornhub?

[dromia]

In Range TV are now using porn hub as well as other sites..

[Gh0st]

Well like any video hosting site their money is made on adverts etc so increasing the traffic makes sense.

Just call it GunHUb and be done with it

[WelshShooter]

Yes, Inrange TV are already hosted on PornHub which will work as a temporary solution, but I don't think that my employer would be happy if I were on that website during my lunch break!

It's absolutely disgusting that a legal sport/hobby is being blocked. YouTube have stated that even videos showing the manufacturing of ammunition will be banned, so there goes handloading.

Reddit, not that I use it, have also blocked a lot of shooting sub forums following a similar way of thinking, with many people outraged. To those who are uninformed, Reddit is a mass forum which features many sub forums (called sub-Reddit's) for any type of discussion. You can have firearms discussion, music, carpentry, and craft beers. A lot of these sub-Reddit's have been deleted without question due to new rules they have rolled out.

It's sad to think that this is effectively net-Neutrality...

[mag41uk]

On a US forum someone spoke about how folks dob in youtube videos.
It was suggested that if one video has 3 or more complaints YT will look at a ban.
This led onto - why not root out and complain about certain videos - may be anti 2nd amendment or anti gun videos.

[Christel]

Ian McCollum is also on full30, could be that is his back up plan.

Maybe the future for forums such as this is to host it on a server at home, if we can get a internet connection despite the content