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by command 2995 days ago
They remove/demonetize videos that contain pro-gun/2A content (some as simple as footage at shooting ranges), meanwhile they allow for rap music videos glorifying sex, drugs, and violence (guns included). Same goes for a fair amount of right-wing content makers regularly having their videos demonetized.

I think it's easy enough to form a conclusion based on that alone.
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evanlivingston 2995 days ago
Their removal of those videos is the exception, not the rule. There are many, many, many gun videos and channels going strong, just like demolition ranch.

Also, isn't everyone feeling demonetized?

edit: I just did a simple experiment on youtube. I did two searches, one for "guns are good" and one for "guns are bad".

"Guns are good" returned returns 11,400,000 videos. "Guns are bad" returns 11,500,000. Most of the top results for "Guns are bad" are reviews of guns or satire against liberal views of gun regulation.

I do think youtube isn't unbiased, but against the 2A and conservative ideas? nah.

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command 2994 days ago
Right- sorry if that was communicated poorly. I know they don't just automatically remove all 2A/conservative content, but there are more than a few big names that have been picked at lately, more often than anything left leaning. And since you mentioned Demo Ranch, I'd assume you're familiar with Hickok45, and you know that several of his videos have recently lost monetization.

Out of curiosity, where do you feel their bias lies?

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krapp 2994 days ago
But if Youtube are demonetizing some pro-gun and right-wing accounts, and not demonetizing others with the same politics, as well as demonetizing other kinds of content such as anime and let's plays, wouldn't that imply a lack of ideological bias behind demonetization?
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command 2994 days ago
That's a fair argument. I'd question the motive behind stripping videos like that: copyright issues or something deeper?

To be clear I'm not taking a political side, I just haven't really noticed too many left-leaning content makers take hits at the same rate.

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krapp 2994 days ago
> I'd question the motive behind stripping videos like that: copyright issues or something deeper

Probably copyright - I honestly think all of this is about "advertiser friendliness," that YouTube is pushing this demonetization scheme ever harder because they're increasingly more desperate to make a profit from the site.

>I just haven't really noticed too many left-leaning content makers take hits at the same rate

How many of those left-leaning channels do you follow? If there were mass demonetization of left-wing content as well, how would you know? Is there objective evidence for a disproportional effect based on political bias?

It took me a second of Googling to find a thread on /r/socialism claiming that Youtube demonetizes left-wing content due to it's right-wing bias[0], so it seems both ends of the political spectrum feel attacked. Maybe it's just a case of extremist politics not being advertiser friendly?

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/7somky/where_are...

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