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Gahh what a relief! I was pretty irritated about this one!

rentz wrote:

cb1000rider wrote:

jb2012 wrote:Do any of you attorneys that frequent this site know of anythjng he could do/ even we could do?

We do a lot of business with Google. They're very large, almost have a monopoly in some areas, and have very deep pockets. Generally, they do as they wish. Difficult to fight an org with that type of market control, legal expertise, and financing.

they also log everything! there isnt a single search or email that goes through them that they don't archive....scrary as heck, yet i still use them so im not sure whats worse them or me hah

if you use the internet, it is awfully hard to not use google! I mean they are so integrated into phones, that if you have a droid you are required to have a gmail account, and if you use apple products all of the default search engines as well as maps all go through google. It would be really really difficult to not use any google products

cb1000rider wrote:

jb2012 wrote:Do any of you attorneys that frequent this site know of anythjng he could do/ even we could do?

We do a lot of business with Google. They're very large, almost have a monopoly in some areas, and have very deep pockets. Generally, they do as they wish. Difficult to fight an org with that type of market control, legal expertise, and financing.

I figured that was the case. It is unbelieveable how much control they have over the internet. No matter what, this is wrong. I don't know hickok personally (obviously) but from what I have gathered I don't think he would conciously break a rule like that.

rentz wrote:

jb2012 wrote:

rentz wrote:my assumption was it had to do with "selling items and advertising"
since he thanks his sponsors and buds sells his test items sometimes....but maybe i'm completely wrong

If that was true there are hundreds of thousands of other users that break that rule everyday and need to be shut down as well. I mean many times when I need to turn a wrench on my truck there is a 1aauto.com tutorial with an advertisement to buy their products. I don't think it is because of that at all.

i know youtube in particular had been going after some users so they could get a bigger slice of the pie, that was why i had the initial speculation.

He definitely had a large slice!

Parabellum- me too, me too.

rentz wrote:my assumption was it had to do with "selling items and advertising"
since he thanks his sponsors and buds sells his test items sometimes....but maybe i'm completely wrong

If that was true there are hundreds of thousands of other users that break that rule everyday and need to be shut down as well. I mean many times when I need to turn a wrench on my truck there is a 1aauto.com tutorial with an advertisement to buy their products. I don't think it is because of that at all.

This is his response on his facebook

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. I will keep you posted via Facebook here and the Hickok45andson channel. I have communicated with YouTube via email this morning, and hopefully, we'll be able to get the channel back up soon. I had just posted a new video.

I haven't gotten the full story yet but from what I have found Hickok45's youtube channel has been deleted. Alledgedly his videos made it to google+, and apparently google+ doesn't allow guns? He says that he did not post the videos there either. Many of you that watch his videos know that he is just a very laid back older man that posts very informative gun reviews. I hope he gets this straightened out, I am sure going to miss his videos. Do any of you attorneys that frequent this site know of anythjng he could do/ even we could do?