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YouTube's hypocrisy. (Patreon)

Published:
2018-03-22 14:29:31
Imported:
2026-06

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The new YouTube firearms related policies that are slated to go into effect shortly include the following restrictions:

Provides instructions on manufacturing a firearm, ammunition, high capacity magazine, homemade silencers/suppressors, or certain firearms accessories such as those listed above. This also includes instructions on how to convert a firearm to automatic or simulated automatic firing capabilities.

Shows users how to install the above-mentioned accessories or modifications.

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First, a disclaimer:

I personally believe that individuals should have full autonomy over their body and that they, and themselves alone, should decide what is right for them.    

With that philosophical and moral disclaimer aside, let’s continue:

In my first letter to Bloomberg I mentioned that the simple search of marijuana + bong on YouTube revealed not only people consuming a Federally illegal schedule 1 substance, but instructions on as well.  This particularly important point seems to have been lost in the now heavily reutilized article about InRangeTV’s move to start distributing our content on PornHub.

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Regardless of if you think firearms should be legal or not is not relevant to the point I’m about to make.  

My point with YouTube’s policies and InRangeTV’s move is not about changing your mind on the topic of firearms ownership - it’s about the freedom of expression on the internet.    

At this moment, regardless of your personal belief, firearms and their accessories are legal in the United States.   Schedule 1 substances are Federally illegal, regardless of what you believe or what your local state’s take is on the topic.  

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I therefore pose these questions:

Why are we seeing continuing restrictions and challenges towards content about something demonstrably legal yet not against that which is clearly illegal?

Why is YouTube using its position as the world’s largest and most empowering content provider and place of free expression as a tool to control the narrative so inconsistently?

Why are we allowing an oligarchy of corporations to turn the internet from a place of freedom of expression and knowledge to a philosophical prison that controls the public narrative?

The internet has been potentially the single most transformative technology ever embraced by mankind!

Humanity has used the internet to evolve to new heights of intellectual pursuits, knowledge and philosophy.  

The internet has shattered cultural barriers and opened the doors of the world of better understanding to almost all of mankind.   In its short life, the internet has changed everything.   

Do we really want to lose this?  

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Please take a moment to browse through some YouTube content that will not be affected by their new firearms policies:

HOW TO MANUFACTURE METH

Synthesis of Methamphetamine by the Leuckart Method:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAIlFwaBju0

"Shake and Bake" Meth manufacture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkPe091GPc

Meth Manufacturing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlrLcqvdkac

Make methylamine hydrochloride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qRxQBQFO4E

HOW TO MANUFACTURE CHLOROFORM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgcl8ZjMAng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-PrAczOGb0

EXPLOSIVES

How to make detonators:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuEqw7nFg0

Making gun cotton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93qxykNZFLg

DIY Molotov cocktail instructions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-UhAzxRQSs

HOW TO COMMIT CRIMES

How to make a fake ID:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgDrHvJ51nw

How to steal a car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF4hapQIdbI

How not to get caught doing Graffiti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQi_7ZmRGwU

How to Shoplift:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPa2atWWVk8

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IN SUMMARY:

Thank you, YouTube, for keeping the world safe from legal firearms accessories.  

You’re truly the moral leaders we need to protect us from ourselves.

~Karl

InRangeTV

Addendum:

This was also sent as an email to Bloomberg​ and The Wall Street Journal​.

Comments

Anonymous

Well said brother! This need to blow up and become an actual topic. Slam this on Reddit.

Anonymous

Karl, What do you think about this as a possible reason for the changes. Perhaps firearms are just the first topic in a series of topics they will be limiting. <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/591622450/section-230-a-key-legal-shield-for-facebook-google-is-about-to-change" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/591622450/section-230-a-key-legal-shield-for-facebook-google-is-about-to-change</a>

Anonymous

They want us disarmed and ignorant.

Anonymous

To me, this just shows that Youtube isn't in the business of defining what's right or wrong, or what's legal/illegal, they're just in the business of pandering to certain political circles. They have an ideology that they want to push. Making meth is fine I guess, but making a rifle isn't. I'm going to end up having to take down about 90% of the content on my YT channel, because it shows things like how to build SBRs and the like. It's incredibly disappointing.

Anonymous

The bottom line is an armed population is the main obstacle of an oppressive and authoritative government, all those other things you mentioned have no effect therefore they don't matter. The powers that be want the people to be disarmed so they can be ruled.

Michael Silverman

In my feedback to YouTube I asked if they wanted to be treated as a regulated utility as their actions justify it.

Anonymous

Very well put, Karl! Even those with no interest in guns should be concerned. Whatever interest they have could be next

Bruce Stein

Have not heard from the NRA on this issue--did I miss it? Seems to me that they should be leading the battle and protecting our rights, instead of leaving it to Karl, Ian and a few other YouTubers.

Anonymous
>>10986208

They’re not concerned. YouTube has already stated their channel won’t be affected.

Anonymous
>>10986148

Once you do that YouTube will never go away and this sort of treatment of users will become enshrined in law.

Anonymous

To be honest that looks like a nice comprehensive list of how to videos. I mean honestly I would rather have that content out in the open than entrust anybody to go about censoring things. Especially when I can find legit terrorist propaganda pages and sermons from Al Azar all day long on YouTube.

Anonymous

I just deleted my Reddit account this morning. I used that site for several years and enjoyed it but yesterday I witness a spineless act by the admins (who made a throwaway account to make their purge announcement because they didn't want their name on it). They can't get congress to do what they want so the gun grabbers are going to do it themselves and force us to communicate on websites that openly host anti-Semites, racists and pedophiles of the world, just because we have an interest in firearms.

Loki

Personally I see the actions of YouTube (and by extension Alphabet) as using their market dominance as a hegemony to uphold their philosophical and political ideologies and to diminish those which disagree or do not conform with their world view. This is the antithesis of a free society where ideas can be freely expressed and discussed to the betterment of all. Karl and Ian, please continue to find ways to ensure your voices can be heard through any medium you find suitable, you have my full support.

Kyle Clark

Karl, enough of this investigative journalism and bring me more pictures of spiderman!

Anonymous

Made a bitchute account today. Keep posting videos and I'll keep watching.

Anonymous

Very well put Karl. This is a great response. I am just concerned it will be lost in the sensationalism that is going to surround putting InRange on PornHub. That is going to be the story in the press, not your very reasoned and reasonable concerns.

Giovanni B. Ponzetto

Dear Karl, I am Italian, ex police force, and father of two. also I am frequently an asshole. Being one, I cannot fail to point out that 100% of the people who want guns out of their lives actually DO NOT WANT guns out of their lives: they simply want government employees to have a monopoly on the legal ones, and criminals to have a monopoly on the illegal ones, with a nice helping of bystanders on the middle. sooooo.... why not offer to get paid to own one? by a pool financed from the general taxation, naturally excluding those volunteering to own one legally?

Anonymous

YouTube is about money. It's been that way for a long time. In a Gun Collective video for last year Jon Patton spoke of the millions of dollars in ad revenue YouTube has lost since the previous year. Guns are a hot topic right now. Hot topics make advertisers nervous. Advertisers get nervous that their revenue may drop if the public sees their product associated with a hot topic. Advertisers then take their ads to places where they believe there are no hot topics. Sadly, drugs, fraud, and theft are not hot topics, and probably never will be. It's all about the money. Take away the teat, and the baby gets nervous.

TheOlsonOutfit

Adding to the whys - Why does YouTube claim one of its pillars is "free speech?"

Anonymous

Again, well written. I've shared this on my facebook. lets get loud about this. Also where is the NRA. I understand we need to support them but it's time we spoke up loudly to them and they start listening to their base. How do we leverage the power of the NRA on issues that we their members care about. We need to put pressure on social media to be responsible and to walk the walk. Instead of saying one thing and then doing the opposite.

Anonymous

Now is the time. Enough of this censorship. Either they rollback this policy or i am deleting all of my alphabet assoicated accounts and encouraging others to do so as well.

Anonymous

Well done Karl. I followed the link to you tube and left my very firm but polite feedback earlier, as you had advocated us doing. I will try to help in any way you see fit to ask of me. Keep fighting, Simon

Anonymous

Here is what I wrote in the feedback portion of the policy post (feel free to use it as well!): The restriction of this content negatively affects the poster's use of 'free speech' by preventing his/her video from being hosted. Furthermore, the use of illegal substance and instruction on how to perform illegal acts is NOT being restricted by Youtube, while instructions, discussion and documentation of a legal item (i.e., a firearm) not only is hypocritical, it is trying to remove/rebrand history by restricting what we (as the public) are allowed to view on the Youtube, a site where all opinion and ideas are supposed to be allowed. Please rescind this hypocritical policy, and thank you for your time.

Anonymous

It has even found it's way to the news in my country the netherlands.

Anonymous
>>10987908

And unfortunately the headline is the move to PornHub not the hypocrisy of YouTube. Also the screen grab used is designed to make Ian look bad as he shows how to use the mag release on an AR as a lefty but, to people who don’t know guns, will be a long haired gun guy brandishing an assault rifle.

Anonymous

I cant belive what is happpening to the country i grew up in /canada is now basically control by sjw's /our prime minister (president ) just decided to go after legal gun owners again in this country to make himslf look like a hero /he lies but all the sjw's up here still worship him like a god /i just wanted to tell my bro's and sisters in your great country fight as hard as you can to keep your freedoms /im pretty sure we will be picked n again are pm gets triggered by more gang violence in a few of are major citys /im just glad my father and grandpa arent alive to see what is happening to our basic rights inthis country /hop i didnt ramble on to much and made sense /your friend in canada

F4_Phantom

Well, it isn't really all that surprising is it? Like all Liberal, Group Think, SJWs, The only speech allowed is what they deem acceptable. If they already haven't, they need to go and re-read George Orwell's 1984. I believe I'll go and re-read my copy again while I'm at it.

Anonymous

This needs not only a video, but an entire series. A detailed breakdown, step-by-step.

Minion

Given that I live under a different legal system, the "freedom of speech" aspect is somewhat different here, namely that we have "freedom FROM speech". But... but.... FFS Karl, that list of stuff that is on YT that's illegal in most jurisdictions worldwide, that was gobsmacking (to use a technical term). I suspect that like most things that stink of lawyers, this is not about actually fixing a problem, but been seen to be "fix" a problem. Namely, IMHO this is about giving the perception to have done something (in this case, potentially protect YT from litigation and bad press), which is a totally different beastie.

Brandon T
>>10990167

F4_Phantom, TBH, I suggest you read Brave New World before re-reading 1984; I'm pretty sure that, despite the fear of an Orwellian future that everyone feared in the late 20th century, what we're really seeing right now is probably more like Huxley's view of totalitarianism.

Minion
>>10992924

Love your work Karl &amp; Ian. Good luck in dealing with these munters.

Brandon T

I'm seriously considering making a bunch YouTube accounts connected to different free email accounts, then bouncing through proxies and simultaneously autoplaying the sorts of videos Karl linked to here; YT's algorithm is not human-controlled, so as long as I pay just enough attention to skip past any "relevant" material and instead focus on more crime-related videos my autoplay list(s) should eventually be nothing but my YT-bots spending their entire days watching all sorts of illegalities.

Anonymous

Not a single penny of my meager monthly donation to the channel is wasted with you guys. Excellent work Karl!

John R. Dorn

youtube's policies aren't about guns, freedom of speech or anything like that. They're about control... period.

Anonymous

We need a new platform to replace StupidTube

Anonymous

Good work on this, Karl and Ian. I think pointing out the double standards can be pretty effective, because it is more readily understood by non-gun people than the vagaries of gun technology and gun laws.

Grant Howard

This all makes me really sad.

Phillip F.

Excellent points all-around - keep fighting the good fight - monthly contribution increased to support y'all through this challenge and into the future. :)

Andy

Since YouTube made a change to its terms of service after many years of people making and filming content .....and then has retroactively applied a rule to individuals that will materially affect their creators livelihoods…. would it not be reasonable for YouTube to compensate any creator that has not broken Federal Law but who’s content they seek to remove?

Anonymous

I think can stick it were the sun don’t shine. I got ride of that account when they started shit the last time. I also use bing or any other search engine just to boycott google.

Anonymous

I am quite concerned though as I like do my reloading with Inrange TV q&amp;A's in the background to listen to....I might be distracted if something else comes on on pornhub afterwards and I'm still knocking them out...getting ready to shoot my load down the range the next day...

Jeremy

Well said!

Michael Smith

You two were just on Fox News. While Laura Ingram was discussing the Youtube gun policy, your last video was running in the background.

Anonymous

#YoutubeCensorship #YoutubeNarativeControl #GoogleCensorship #LeftWing #BiasedMedia #Full30 #Patreon #DumpYoutube #BigMedia #Orwell #1984 #BigBrother #NewSpeak #TruthMinistry #MinistryOfLove #IntolerantLeft

Hans Ritzema

Nothing to do with being left!

Anonymous

Carl, you the real MVP... Bravo Sir! 👍

Anonymous

Just saw the news announcement about moving the channel to PornHub, I guess they know content delivery even better than YouTube! 8*D

Anonymous

ha you really think they gave a damn,nooooo they don't. it will be interesting if the wall street journal has the balls to investigate this AND do a piece on the subject

Gavin Rea-Davies

I hope it all works out in the end. You even made the main Technology News page on the BBC website, a nice picture of Ian with one of the WWST rifles. This whole thing seems to fit a worrying trend of over-proctection becoming basically fascism in a new and more 'legit' form. For example, protecting women's rights is great. But now they start taking it too far, such as making F1 grid girls redundant because they are only being employed for their looks. Wow, so that's the same as most of Hollywood and the whole music industry right. Apparently not. Girls at school at being told they can't wear skirts, in order to protect their modesty. Now we can't watch legit videos about legal sports and recreation. All starting to look very oppressive out there... :(

Anonymous

24 volumes in the Nafziger Collection. Can't spell, can't use a computer, and now, apparently can't count. Not my best day.

Anonymous

Keep it up boys, we need more of this. Intelligent and well spoken resistance. The more we can show that we won't take this laying down the better.

Karl Abrahamson

I particularly thought that the BoingBoing coverage was really tone-deaf in regards to your statement. It was pretty clear that the author hadn't bothered to scroll through your video list, and had no real concept of what your goals or what the ethos of InRange is. Its unfortunate that even previously level-headed folks are stooping to emotional responses. Of course something needs to be fixed, I think everyone agrees that the current state of affairs in the US is not what it should be, but I have yet to see very many people put forth real solutions from either side.

Ben Nicolson

I'd really appreciate any guidance on good alternatives to google/youtube as a not particularly knowledgeable person who can post a video and write an email using those. There must be some comparable less Orwellian choices.

Anonymous

I'm incensed by YouTubes'/Google's hypocrisy! If the claim is true - that either/both Google and YouTube took Federal funds - past or present - then they should be nationalized and forced to adhere to USA Constitutional laws and Amendments. Gearing up for alternate delivery channels is a good and necessary thing. YouTube should suffer what the "left" seemingly always try to do - let the monopoly of government violence take over and bully private entities into submission. Nonetheless, we support your efforts- keep up the excellent work.

TomRedlion

A few of them have since been taken down. But yeah. Hypocrisy out the yingyang.