YouTube bans bump stock videos after Las Vegas shooting

By Andrew Shepperson

YouTube has banned bump stock tutorial videos after gunman Stephen Paddock used rifles equipped with the devices to kill 58 people and injure almost 500 in the Las Vegas mass shooting this month.
The company said the decision to ban videos showing how to use the devices, which allow semi-automatic rifles to simulate full auto fire, was the result of its expanded policy prohibiting “harmful and dangerous content,” The Hill reported.
“We have long had a policy against harmful and dangerous content,” a YouTube spokesman told The Hill. “In the wake of the recent tragedy in Las Vegas, we have taken a closer look at videos that demonstrate how to convert firearms to make them fire more quickly and we’ve expanded our existing policy to prohibit these videos.”
According to YouTube’s community guidelines, the site also bans videos that promote violence, hate, threats, or scamming attempts. Hundreds of thousands of videos are posted to the site daily, so the company relies on its over one billion users to report videos that may violate the guidelines. Those reports are then reviewed by the company and taken down if found in violation.
One such user, who had a bump stock video recently flagged and taken down, decided to post YouTube’s explanation on Instagram.
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Source: Guns.com