{"id":44912,"date":"2022-02-16T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T21:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44912"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T22:59:40","slug":"senate-democrats-press-youtube-on-ghost-gun-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44912","title":{"rendered":"SENATE DEMOCRATS PRESS YOUTUBE ON \u2018GHOST GUN\u2019 VIDEOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Democratic senators\u00a0on Monday\u00a0wrote\u00a0a letter to YouTube asking the\u00a0online video platform to more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nfqjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqtyfqqw_oljtwwjzjdtlkwfwtzrk.html?a=&amp;b=47177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nfqjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqtyfqqw_oljtwwjzjdtlkwfwtzrk.html?a%3D%26b%3D47177&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645137879137000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Sf-Q7yUbF0QZtzcWa_Phj\">strictly enforce its policy<\/a>\u00a0forbidding videos about making &#8220;ghost guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) along with fellow Democratic Sens.\u00a0Bob Menendez\u00a0(N.J.),\u00a0Chris Murphy\u00a0(Conn.),\u00a0Cory Booker\u00a0(N.J.) and\u00a0Ed Markey\u00a0(Mass.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pjfdwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhyqjhhh_oljtwwjzjdtlkwfwtzrk.html?a=&amp;b=47177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pjfdwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhyqjhhh_oljtwwjzjdtlkwfwtzrk.html?a%3D%26b%3D47177&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645137879137000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1zWWcNELXg8ztMIUWctKtV\">wrote<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mqpsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvctqyccq_oljtwwjzjdtlkwfwtzrk.html?a=&amp;b=47177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mqpsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvctqyccq_oljtwwjzjdtlkwfwtzrk.html?a%3D%26b%3D47177&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645137879137000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2TLJ_a9BWs93wmYAvK3xC3\">\u00a0to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki<\/a>\u00a0to express &#8220;serious concern that YouTube continues to host videos that instruct viewers on how to make and manufacture ghost guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That YouTube has Community Guidelines in place to prohibit content instructing viewers on how to make firearms is a welcome initiative, but these policies must be enforced\u2014and enforced strongly\u2014to make any difference,&#8221; the senators wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Ghost guns are weapons that can be built using at-home kits available for anyone to purchase. They do not have serial numbers, which makes them nearly impossible to trace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Democratic senators\u00a0on Monday\u00a0wrote\u00a0a letter to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44913,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44912\/revisions\/44913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}