Ok Reddit's thing is due to a law about to be signed; not sure if Youtube's change in policy is related.

Probably deserves a post of its own but I'm headed toward bed and my S key is dying: Section 230 protections are about to go away. If you're unfamiliar, it'll be like 2257 all over again -- Websites were immune to most liability and lawsuits over content posted by users, and now they won't be. Reddit, for example, can be sued or otherwise held liable if, say, ladies of negotiable affection post seeking business. The goal was to remove protections for Backpage and other sites dealing with sex trafficking, especially of minors, but the wording can be interpreted more broadly to various other crimes.

NPR article

I'm guessing this affects international sites as well.

That is their office line but it has little to do with that. They could have waited to that to become law. They banned the airsoft deals.(toy guns) They didn't ban a ton of other subreddits that are much easier to argue fall under the soon to be law. It is a political move. And while it irks me I do believe as a private company they have every right. I'm just upset that Facebook, reddit, Google, and YouTube (and the last twos parent company alphabet) have decided to try to dampen gun ownership. I want other people to enjoy the things I enjoy. I also feel like it is a fundamental right for free people. I feel there is a very good chance guns will be all but banned and deffently out of the public's hands within my son's life time and that our government having that power will be corrupted. So, i put my finger in the dam but I'm sure I'm going to drown.

It sounds too good to be true, so it probably is.

To be fair, this is like bare fucking minimum. I'm sure the CDC won't actually be able to budget for doing the research.

But leaving up all the videos on how to build drug paraphernalia, pick locks, assemble hacking devices, jailbreak phones, forge melee weapons, brew deadly chemicals, exploit children, etc, isn't hypocritical in the slightest.

You fucking idiots deserve to lose your freedoms.

Indeed. The no quarter given approach to gun control by the NRA and their ilk is backfiring badly. It taints responsible gun owners by association when you have the organization purportedly representing them putting out youtube videos promising a reckoning to reporters. It becomes untenable for a private company to associate with something whose public face looks like a deranged fringe. Which wouldn't be so bad, but the government is more than happy to cede more and more power to the private sector.

Elsa and Spiderman assemble Logan Paul's AR-15 using fidget spinner tide pods NOT CLICKBAIT

They've been moved to Y'allTube where they belong.

So videos that show how to properly disassemble and reassemble firearms for cleaning are to be removed/banned?

That is fucking moronic.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this policy clarified/dialed back once the next system shock happens, and attention is diverted elsewhere.