YouTube's Fascism - Strikes for Silencers

 For the last few days, YouTube has been on the warpath as numerous content creators such as VSO, Kit Badger, Demolition Ranch, MrGunsandGear, ForgottenWeapons, GarandThumb and others have all received content strikes. In many of these situations the videos were deleted and some of the channels have been deleted entirely such as Kit Badger. These are all popular channels. From what I can see, the common theme is silencers. Silencers are legal to own, so what's the deal?

I don't have a contact at YouTube but from what I can see, in conjunction with evidence from the mega-channel Demolition Ranch if you have a video showing you screwing on a silencer to a barrel or using a quick detach system, then you've violated the law. By law, I mean their "Community Guidelines." 

The YouTube rules apparently are being interpreted in new ways. The one that maters is their rule on "installing." If you're video has you inserting a 30 round magazine into a firearm, that's installing. If you attach the silencer, that's installing. If you add more baffles to your modular silencer, that's installing. Apparently, YouTube doesn't want people to know how to "install" devices. 

If you watch enough of YouTube gun channels, you'll see where sometimes gun stuff is blurred out, that's the creator hiding something to "comply" with YouTube's fascism control on information. 

Sadly, YouTube is controlled by left leaning folks that don't like guns and they're willing to turn YouTube into a battleground for information. 

Most channels have backups on Rumble. 

Many people will claim that the platform is their's and they can do what they want. That's true but why are they so bent on controlling this information? They're losing the gun control war and they know it and limiting the control of information is the only way they can get back any ground. Still, they can't stop the signal.

That said, MrGunsandGear has a video up and he thinks its due to advertisers. See below.

Update 31 JAN: Real journalists at RECOIL Magazine put up an article on this issue. Also the number of victims of YouTube's actions are growing. Link here

https://www.recoilweb.com/youtube-censorship-losing-the-battle-for-1a-2a-178568.html

Update 04 FEB: Some of the YouTube channels are reporting they have gotten their channels back after a huge backlash from the community along with members of Congress starting to inquire. Mrgunsandgear noted that he's had to got back over his videos and edit out scenes where normal gun stuff is done like insert a regular magazine or similar. While this is good news, other channels have reported a flip flopping where they got the channel back but then it was struck down again. We shall see how this all turns out.