Not content to trample on Americans’ Second Amendment rights, the gun control crowd is fixing to similarly trample on their First Amendment rights as well.
In the latest move of it’s kind, popular Youtube personality Hickok45 had his account suspended by Google for allegedly violating it’s terms of service. Needless to say, Hickok45 was shocked by the suspension. He never posted anything objectionable, so why should Google ban his account?
See, Hickok45’s channel featured videos of him handling and talking about firearms. He had made a name for himself as a gun enthusiast, with over 1.7 million Youtube users subscribing to his channel. But that all changed this Wednesday when his most recent video was automatically posted to Google+.
Shortly after the video was posted on the site, Hickok45 was informed that his account had been suspended without any actual explanation. He took to Facebook to express his confusion, writing, “Apparently, Google + is more sensitive about firearms related postings and such. I never use Google+ and did not even realize the videos were being posted over there, I guess.”
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There goes the 1st amendment right. FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
by a month geez
OLD NEWS- CATCH UP – They unblocked his channel a couple weeks ago.
No atribution. No link to the you tube site. (the links are all advertisers – SUCKERS!) Nothing about what was in the supposed offending video. I call b******t. At most it was a simple misunderstanding blown out of proportion why the insanity of infowars. Seriously… If you follow that site, you are an idiot.
I think a great number of you don’t really understand how the First Amendment works, it protects freedom of expression, yes, but it protects it from the government, a private company can add, or remove, any video they like, for whatever reason they like so long as there is no breech of contract. Just like if your boss at work tells you you can’t bring a gun in or he will fire you, if you bring in a gun and he fires you, you couldn’t use the second amendment for that situation.
lol all of a sudden 9-11 !!! oops wrong president lol
This is of course, old news. The channel was restored the next day.
this isn’t/wasn’t violation of anything…. as it turns out, Google is not the government and if they want they can screen whatever content they want off of THEIR SERVICE. so long as they apply the policy equally to all users its not discrimination either.
so in summary… not content to understand that you have absolutely no right to use ‘social media’, truthandaction.org is approaching outright fabrication of new ways to complain about their rights being infringed upon….
not Hickok 45
Who gives a$#%&!@*what You Tube does screw them