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⚠ **Trump agrees to meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, South Korea says**
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President Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May for high-level talks toward a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, a South Korean official said outside the White House Thursday.
The extraordinary and unexpected opening came through shuttle diplomacy by a South Korean delegation arriving in Washington Thursday. Trump heralded the development as a "major announcement" after speaking with the South Korean president.
"I told President Trump that in our meeting, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he's committed to denuclearization. He pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests," South Korean national security adviser Chung Eui-yong told reporters after meeting with Trump at the White House.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/464216787182428160
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/464217937516040193
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🇺🇸 **REPORT: Susan Rice Told NSC Officials To ‘Stand Down’ In Response To Russian Meddling Attempts**
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Former national security advisor Susan Rice issued a stand down order to national security council officials developing aggressive options to respond to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, a new excerpt from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump reveals.
NSC officials were reportedly alarmed by Russia’s attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, including the hacking of Democratic National Committee officials’ emails, and those belonging to Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Michael Daniel, an NSC official responsible for the Russia portfolio, told to the book’s authors of multiple plans to strike fear in Russian President Vladimir Putin with the aim of ending Russia’s election meddling. These plans included surreptitiously releasing personal information about Putin’s family, which revealed corruption in Putin’s political party, and even crafting a large cybersecurity exercise as a public threat to Russia.
Daniel additionally told the authors that when Rice caught wind of his planning, she called him and berated him.
Obama officials have since lamented “we sort of choked” in response to the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The former president instead took it upon himself to warn Putin in person during a face-to-face meeting in September 2016 to “knock it off” in terms of election meddling with a an explicit warning of consequences if it continued.
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<:strawman:372034857099984897> **'Black' robots may be target for racism - study**
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People have similar automatic biases towards darker-coloured robots as they do toward people with darker skin colour, according to new research from the University of Canterbury (UC). The new research paper, *Robots and racism*, is being presented on Thursday in Chicago at an international conference on human-robot interaction.
"This result should be troubling for people working in social robotics given the profound lack of diversity in the robots available," UC human-robot interaction expert associate professor Christoph Bartneck said.
"This lack of racial diversity amongst social robots may be anticipated to produce all of the problematic outcomes associated with a lack of racial diversity in other fields."
(((We))) hope the research might inspire reflection on the social and historical forces that have brought what is now quite a racially diverse community of engineers to - seemingly without recognising it - design robots that are easily identified by those outside this community as being almost entirely 'white', he said.
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🇺🇸 **Department of Justice moves to ban bump stocks, classifying them as 'machine guns' under federal law**
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The U.S. Department of Justice formally submitted a regulation on Saturday to ban "bump stocks," a modification to high-capacity rifles that lets them fire like an automatic weapon.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum in February directing the department to make the regulatory change, which must now be approved by the Office of Management and Budget before it is published and subject to a commentary period.
The move does not require congressional approval, allowing the administration to side-step what could have been insurmountable pressure from pro-gun groups such as the National Rifle Association that have worked to erode changes in firearm laws in the wake of mass shootings in Florida and Nevada.
The NRA supported more regulations on bump stocks but has not endorsed Trump's ban and said previously it was awaiting the publication of the regulation before rendering judgment.
The NRA could not immediately be reached for comment.
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🇺🇸 **November 11th 2018 Veteran's Day Parade Details**
https://twitter.com/Tmgneff/status/972255339054817282
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<:trump:284711336934375425> **Elizabeth Warren Refuses to Take a DNA Test to Prove Her Native American Heritage**
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The Massachusetts Senator was interviewed on today;s episode of NBC's Meet the Press. Host Chuck Todd pointed out a recent Massachusetts' newspaper editorial that called upon the supposed Native American to take a $99 DNA test sample.
But, the Senator refused to say whether she would take the test. No, it is not the price that deterred the wealthy Warren from taking the test, the Senator simply wants to retain her family's folk lore.
"My mother and daddy were born and raised in Oklahoma,” Warren said. “My daddy first saw my mother when they were both teenagers. He fell in love with this tall, quiet girl who played the piano. Head over heels. But his family was bitterly opposed to their relationship because she was part Native American. They eventually eloped.”
“Look, I do know. I know who I am. And never used it for anything. Never got any benefit from it anywhere," Warren said. "But what I did a couple of weeks ago is I went to talk to the leaders of the native tribes across the country."
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<:shiiiiit:348458410217308170> **Trump: Maxine Waters is 'a very low IQ individual'**
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President Trump hit "low IQ" Maxine Waters during a campaign rally speech on Saturday, mocking the California Democrat for calling for his impeachment.
"And Maxine Waters, a very low IQ individual. Did you ever see her?" Trump told a Pennsylvania crowd at a rally for GOP House candidate Rick Saccone.
"We will impeach him. We will impeach the president. But he hasn't done anything wrong. It doesn't matter, we will impeach him. She's a low IQ individual. She can't help it. She really is. We will impeach him. But we have Maxine Waters and plenty of others," Trump said.
"I say it is time to get ready for impeachment," Waters told Democrats at the California Democratic Party’s annual convention in February. “I cannot wait and I’m counting on special counsel Mueller to connect the dots.”
Trump has frequently hit his opponents IQ's.
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🇷🇺 **GOP HOUSE INTEL COMMITTEE: NO COLLUSION**
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/973322096792166400
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<:trump:284711336934375425> **CAPSLOCK BROKE**
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/973360355790479361
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🇺🇸 **Trump fires Tillerson, a moderate; replaces him with hawkish spy chief Pompeo**
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President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday after a series of public rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran, replacing his chief diplomat with loyalist CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
Trump announced the changes in a morning Twitter post and later told reporters more about why he removed Tillerson.
“We got along actually quite well but we disagreed on things,” Trump said. “When you look at the Iran deal: I think it’s terrible, I guess he thinks it was OK. I wanted to break it or do something, and he felt a little bit differently.”
Pompeo, a former Army officer who represented a Kansas district in the House of Representatives before taking the Central Intelligence Agency job, is seen as a Trump loyalist who has enjoyed a less hostile relationship with career spies than Tillerson had with career diplomats.
Trump chose the CIA’s deputy director, Gina Haspel, to replace Pompeo there. A veteran CIA clandestine officer, Haspel is backed by many in the U.S. intelligence community but is regarded warily by some in Congress for her involvement in the agency’s “black site” detention facilities.
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🇺🇸 **Trump praises military, calls for 'Space Force' as new branch of armed forces**
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President Trump praised members of the military Tuesday, saying the administration will give them the “largest pay raise in over a decade,” while touting successes around the globe, and even suggesting the creation of a new military branch — the “Space Force.”
The president spoke to thousands of military men and women at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, Calif., Tuesday, following his visit to review border wall prototypes.
“We are finally going to lead again. Very soon, we’re going to Mars —you wouldn’t be going to Mars if my opponent won. You wouldn’t even be thinking of it,” Trump said, in a swipe at Hillary Clinton.
That's when the president went on to introduce his “new national strategy for space.”
“Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea,” Trump said. “We may even have a Space Force — we have the Air Force, we’ll have the Space Force, you know, the Army, the Navy.” He added: “I said, maybe we need a new force, I was not really serious, but now I’m thinking that’s a great idea. We’re making a Space Force. Tremendous.”
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🇺🇸 **United Airlines Apologizes After Dog Dies in Overhead Compartment**
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United Airlines apologized on Tuesday after a dog died on a flight during which it was stored in a passenger’s overhead compartment. A witness said that a flight attendant had ordered the pet owner to put the dog in the compartment before the plane took off.
The dog, a black French bulldog that was traveling in a pet carrier, was placed in the compartment shortly before United Flight 1284 left Houston for New York at around 6 p.m. Monday, said Maggie Gremminger, 30, who was seated behind the pet owner. She said the owner was instructed to put her dog there shortly after she boarded with two children, one of whom was an infant.
“The pet owner was very adamant that she did not want to put the pet carrier up above,” Ms. Gremminger said. “She was saying verbally, ‘My dog is in here, no, this is my dog.’ The flight attendant, in response, really just continued to ask her to put it above because it was a hazard where it was, it was a safety emergency, someone could trip.”
The dog’s death is the latest in a string of alarming customer service incidents for United, including an episode last year in which a passenger was dragged screaming off an overbooked flight at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Video of his rough treatment was shared widely online and in the news media.
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<:brainlet:422417020844507136> **Stephen Hawking dead**
https://twitter.com/AP/status/973769918150840320
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<:gayfrogs:319792618576019466> **Stephen Hawking pictured on Jeffrey Epstein's 'sex slave' Caribbean island**
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A new picture shows Stephen Hawkingamong the guests at a barbecue during a conference sponsored by Epstein.
The March 2006 photograph, taken before Epstein was charged for unlawful sex with a minor, shows professor Hawking on the billionaire's private Caribbean island, Little St James, dubbed "the Island of Sin".
Hawking, currently the subject of Oscar-nominated film The Theory of Everything, also took a boat trip and a submarine tour, paid for by Epstein.
The trip was part of a science conference on neighbouring island St Thomas, which was paid for by Epstein, 61, and which 20 other internationally renowned scientists attended.
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🇺🇸 **Vanessa Trump files for divorce from Donald Trump Jr.**
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Vanessa Trump filed for divorce against her husband Donald Trump Jr. late Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The president’s daughter-in-law filed for an uncontested proceeding, meaning she’s not expecting a legal battle over custody of the couple’s five children or their assets.
They were married in 2005.
Page Six first reported that they were struggling with marital problems related to Don Jr.’s travels and controversial tweets.
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🇺🇸 **Undocumented immigrant appointed to state post in California**
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The Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday appointed the first undocumented resident to a statewide post, according to Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León's office.
Lizbeth Mateo, a 33-year-old attorney and immigrant rights activist, will serve on the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee. The committee advises the California Student Aid Commission on efforts to increase college access for California students from low-income or underserved communities.
"While Donald Trump fixates on walls, California will continue to concentrate on opportunities," de León said in a news release. "Ms. Mateo is a courageous, determined and intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country." In a statement, Mateo said she welcomed the opportunity. “While undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made," she said.
According to de León's office, Mateo graduated from Santa Clara University law School in 2016 and passed the California bar last year.
She was born in Oaxaca, Mexico and came to the United States with her parents when she was 14, according to de León's office.
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<:shiiiiit:348458410217308170> **Chicago students trash Walmart during walkout over gun violence**
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Chicago police are trying to identify the dozens of students from Simeon Career Academy who they say took part in a vandalism spree while they were supposed to be protesting guns.
Shoppers and store employees were stunned by the destruction Wednesday morning at the Walmart in Chatham Market on the South Side.
Chicago police say it started when students at neighboring Simeon Career Academy were allowed to leave the school for 17 minutes to take part in the nationwide walkout to protest guns.
Police say between 40 and 60 of those students crossed the street and trashed parts of the store, knocking over product displays, yanking items off shelves, breaking packages and stealing small items like chips and candy.
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<:trump:284711336934375425> **FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired less than 48 hours before retirement day**
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Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired Friday evening, less than 48 hours before he planned to formally retire and collect a full pension.
Officials at the FBI recommended that he be fired before he had planned to retire on Sunday, his 50th birthday.
In a lengthy statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General provided its report on "allegations of misconduct" by McCabe to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility "after an extensive and fair investigation."
It is unclear now what part of his pension he will receive.
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🇺🇸 **Oakland mayor consulted with illegal-immigration activists before tipping off ICE raid**
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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who sparked national outrage when she undermined a federal immigration raid last month, worked with illegal-immigration activists before she warned the public about the raid-- a move that ICE said led to hundreds of illegals evading detention.
Schaaf took to Twitter to warn the public about the raid, and has stood by her decision despite a number of hardened criminals being caught -- and ICE officials warning that potentially hundreds of other criminals escaped as a consequence of the tipoff.
"It is Oakland’s legal right to be a sanctuary city and we have not broken any laws," Schaaf said in a statement last month. "We believe our community is safer when families stay together."
KPIX5 reports that Schaaf was in touch with Centro Legal de la Raza just hours before the announcement, giving her information on what employers should do in the case of an ICE raid.
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🇺🇸 **Communist militia leader arrested on weapons charges**
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We have reported extensively on the violent communist militia group, Red Guards Austin. This far-left extremist group openly praises a dictator who butchered millions of people, openly advocates for armed “revolutionary violence”, and is actively recruiting students via their campus organizing arm, Revolutionary Student Front.
In a statement from the Red Guards Austin, they claim that one of their organizers was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm on Friday, March 9th: *“Dallas [not his legal name] and a friend headed to the bail bond office to meet the further requirements of his bail. Immediately upon exiting the car, they were surrounded by undercover cops and federal agents. Dallas was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm as a felon”*
Towards the end of their statement they make it clear that they are ready to die in order to institute an authoritarian communist government: *They cannot break the will of the movement guided by the sharpest weapon the proletariat has ever wielded: Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism. Though we have many lessons to learn from our errors, and though it grieves us unspeakably that someone we treasure has fallen into the hands of the enemy, we have never been embarrassed by our work and our struggle, and we never will be. We will uphold, defend, and apply Maoism until our deaths.*
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🇷🇺 **Vladimir Putin decisively re-elected as Russian president – preliminary results **
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Incumbent Russian leader Vladimir Putin is set to secure a resounding victory in the Russian presidential election, according to partial results made public by the electoral commission. Vladimir Putin is now leading with over 76 percent of the vote, well above the simple majority needed to avoid a run-off.
First-time Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin is running second with little over 12 percent, while veteran nationalist politician (((Vladimir Zhirinovsky))), who first ran against Boris Yeltsin in 1991, rounds out the top three with about six percent.
Shortly after the first results were announced, Vladimir Putin addressed his supporters at a massive anniversary rally in Moscow’s Red Square, marking Crimea's reunification with Russia, and talked to reporters in his election campaign HQ. He thanked his backers and answered questions on the hottest political issues.
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**Pokemon GO Makes People More Violent? Washington Man Allegedly Assaults Other Players After Losing Gym.**
**http://archive.is/mlsBv**
According to Washington State TV station KATU News, three men were sitting on a park bench in the Burnt Bridge Creek Trail in Vancouver when a stranger pulled up and threatened them with a tire iron.
"He comes out of nowhere, yelling, 'Which one of you is Andy?' with a tire iron in his hand," said Andrew Otton. Otton's username on Pokémon GO is AndySamberg, and so he realized that the man was looking for him. According to Otton, he took control of a gym without realizing that another player had just claimed it.
"Hey, did you just take this gym from me? That's pretty messed up, man," the man very angrily said, according to Otton.
The incident allegedly did not just end with raised voices. According to Grayson Hagstrom, one of the people with Otton at the time, the man punched his friend several times. Hagstrom then got behind the angry man and started choking him to make him stop.
"I figured if he didn't have consciousness, he wouldn't be that tough."
It is unclear how the confrontation ended, but Otton and Hagstrom got the man's license plate and shared it on social media. Other people then revealed that this was not the first time that the man went on a Pokémon GO-related rampage.
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<:shiiiiit:348458410217308170> **D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’**
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A D.C. lawmaker responded to a brief snowfall Friday by publishing a video in which he espoused a conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers control the weather.
D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr., D-Ward 8, posted the video to his official Facebook page at 7:21 a.m. as snow flurries were hitting the nation's capital. The video, shot through the windshield of a car driving west on Interstate 695 through downtown Washington, shows snowy skies while White narrates.
"Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y'all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation," he says. "And D.C. keep talking about, 'We a resilient city.' And that's a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful."
However, about four hours after The Washington Post published this story online Sunday, White sent a statement of apology via text message.
"I work hard everyday to combat racism and prejudices of all kinds. I want to apologize to the Jewish Community and anyone I have offended," he said. "The Jewish community have been allies with me in my journey to help people. I did not intend to be anti-Semitic, and I see I should not have said that after learning from my colleagues."
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<:shiiiiit:348458410217308170> **7 killed, 13 wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago**
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Seven people were killed and at least 13 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago between 4:30 p.m. Friday and 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
In the last fatal shooting, a 36-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday night on the Near North Side. The man was sitting in his parked car about 8:45 p.m. in the 500 block of West Division Street when a group of five armed people approached him and fired shots, according to Chicago Police. He was shot in the back and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
On Saturday night, a man was killed and another was grazed by a bullet as they were driving in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side. The men, ages 27 and 32, were traveling south in a Chevrolet Equinox at 10:33 p.m. in the 4900 block of South Ashland when two males got out of a dark-colored SUV and opened fire, authorities said. The older man, Terrell L. Jones, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his body, while the younger man was grazed in the right hand.
At least 11 other people were wounded in shootings over the weekend.
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🇫 **Count Dankula, memelord who made video of him teaching his pug the roman salute, convicted guilty for hate crime**
https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/976082047172259841?s=20
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** <:laff:387622602111320065> BITCOIN BLOCK CHAIN BEING USED BY PEDOPHILES TO STORE IMAGES OF CHILD PORN**
http://archive.is/AFhYP#selection-1643.0-1655.273
German researchers have discovered unknown persons are using bitcoin’s blockchain to store and link to child abuse imagery, potentially putting the cryptocurrency in jeopardy.
The blockchain is the open-source, distributed ledger that records every bitcoin transaction, but can also store small bits of non-financial data. This data is typically notes about the trade of bitcoin, recording what it was for or other metadata. But it can also be used to store links and files.
Researchers from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany found that around 1,600 files were currently stored in bitcoin’s blockchain. Of the files least eight were of sexual content, including one thought to be an image of child abuse and two that contain 274 links to child abuse content, 142 of which link to dark web services.
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🇺🇸 **YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate**
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YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, this week quietly introduced tighter restrictions on videos involving weapons, becoming the latest battleground in the U.S. gun-control debate.
YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to websites selling firearms and accessories, including bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic rifle to fire faster. Additionally, YouTube said it will prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms. The video site, owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, has faced intense criticism for hosting videos about guns, bombs and other deadly weapons.
For many gun-rights supporters, YouTube has been a haven. A current search on the site for “how to build a gun” yields 25 million results, though that includes items such as toys. At least one producer of gun videos saw its page suspended on Tuesday. Another channel opted to move its videos to an adult-content site, saying that will offer more freedom than YouTube.
“We routinely make updates and adjustments to our enforcement guidelines across all of our policies,” a YouTube spokeswoman said in a statement. “While we’ve long prohibited the sale of firearms, we recently notified creators of updates we will be making around content promoting the sale or manufacture of firearms and their accessories.”
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