No more gun related videos on Youtube?

Youtube has made reloading channels and most gun channels "against their policy"

Apparently, fresh new Youtube guidelines make reloading channels, and any gun channel that shows you anything at all educational, against their guidelines. There are several videos already out about it, with more to come, most likely, as the youtube channels have 30 days to "clean up their channels...

Unfortunately, youtube has performed a classic bait and switch maneuver accompanied by all the hallmarks of a monopoly. There is no other game in town because they drove all the competition out by claiming to be a bastion of free expression and an open market for the exchange of ideas. Now they have decided to dictate which ideas are palatable to them (the googlemasters).

This offends me on so many levels that I cannot begin to express my rage. Where do you go in this day and age to learn how to change a half-shaft on a 2000 dodge intrepid? Where do you look for instruction on setting up an aquarium or fish pond or 1000's of other things that were once the arena of either trial and error (often expensively) or the purview of "hire an expert" for $$$$. Now the rug gets yanked.

There is no alternative, which, as I seem to recall, constitutes a monopoly.

Am I just spoiled? Am I somehow completely misconstruing the entire situation? If Youtube was limiting the freedom of two men/women to kiss vigorously and grope each other, would there be an outcry of repression?

Shots fired, shots fired!

JJ

Microsoft is big enough and rich enough to get back into the game. They tried with their Bing videos. If Microsoft could get behind the constitution and give a viable alternative and make it easy for people to port their channels over to them, they just might win enough loyal following to make it worth their while and maybe even bump start their mobile phone business again, especially if they take privacy to a whole new level.

Do not know why they did not focus on porting the latest and greatest apps for their phone OS. They should of hired buildings full of people to get it done for the app developers that already developed for android and IOS if they could not develop an easy enough Software Developers Kit for them to do it themselves or to incentivize them enough to do it themselves. Same with emulation software, etc. Always thought a dual boot phone would be cool.

My backup phone, which is my primary phone for the time being is a Nokia Windows phone I bought in 2013. Original replaceable battery still working good. I had a Samsung Galaxy for two or so of those years and briefly a Motorola G4 plus that had charging issues, but was a pretty good unlocked phone with radios for all the major carriers. Been thinking about getting an unlocked Motorola X4, but right now it is a wait and see. Might go to the dark side and spend a lot more for an unlocked Apple IPhone that covers all the major carriers now. I do not like to be pinned down to one service or locked into a contract.