SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: YouTube Continues Throttling Shooting News Weekly’s Videos.

Apparently we’ve violated the “Content that facilitates the sale of certain regulated goods, like firearms, ammunition, or prohibited firearm accessories” restriction.

To be absolutely clear, we are NOT “facilitating the sale” of any of these things. …Unless YouTube simply considers a positive review or any mild comment like saying something is a “good value” or stating the product’s MSRP or recommending the product is somehow “facilitating” its sale. I don’t believe that’s precisely what’s going on here, it’s just YouTube’s justification for the continuing the censorship of SNW’s videos (and other similar content creators).

In all cases I submitted an appeal, which is supposed to trigger a manual review. YouTube set expectations that an appeals review is likely to take up to 72 hours. In all cases our appeal was rejected within an hour — usually just a few minutes — and the content remained removed from any form of visibility on YouTube and/or deleted entirely from our library.

“There’s always Rumble,” except that hardly anybody watches Rumble.