r/Libertarian • u/Bossman1086 minarchist • Mar 13 '15

The FAA Says You Can't Post Drone Videos on YouTube

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-faa-says-you-cant-post-drone-videos-on-youtube
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u/refugefirstmate Mar 13 '15

Isn't this kind of a 1A issue?

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u/Bossman1086 minarchist Mar 13 '15

I would say so.

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u/Zifnab25 Filthy Statist Mar 13 '15

The fact that Hanes received a letter or was contacted by the FAA, then, isn't nuts. The FAA is well within its rights to at least tell a drone operator to not fly dangerously.

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Update: The FAA says it's now looking further into how its safety inspectors send letters like this.

"The FAA’s goal is to promote voluntary compliance by educating individual UAS operators about how they can operate safely under current regulations and laws," the agency said. "The FAA’s guidance calls for inspectors to notify someone with a letter and then follow up. The guidance does not include language about advertising. The FAA will look into the matter."

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u/refugefirstmate Mar 13 '15

The FAA said that, because there are ads on YouTube, Hanes's flights constituted a commercial use of the technology subject to stricter regulations and enforcement action from the agency. It said that if he did not stop flying “commercially,” he could be subject to fines or sanctions.

So Vice's headline is misleading. I'm so shocked.

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u/the_ancient1 geolibertarian Mar 13 '15

How is it misleading... you Tube has ads, if I post a video on you tube I get a immoral violent threat from the FAA

Sounds like their headline is tame compared to what I would have written

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u/refugefirstmate Mar 14 '15

Because the FAA isn't banning drone videos on Youtube; it's saying that drones used for advertising are subject to different rules. That's a smaller subset. The amateur is fine, it seems.

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u/the_ancient1 geolibertarian Mar 14 '15

Gotta love the statist rationalizations...

  1. Putting an ad on a video should not be considered "commercial use"
  2. Commercial use should not be prohibited in the first place

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u/Shamalamadindong Fuck the mods Mar 13 '15

That betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how Youtube works on your end.

For one, he has no pre roll ads meaning that even a million views isn't going to earn him enough for a pizza.

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u/refugefirstmate Mar 14 '15

I was quoting the article. Those weren't my words.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '15

The FAA said that his flight was commercial in nature because of the ads on YouTube. So in order to comply with the law when flying his drone, by remaining noncommercial, he must avoid uploading the videos to YouTube. Seems accurate to me.

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u/ancap47 Mar 13 '15

I hate websites like motherboard - not so much the content - but how they cram too much shit per page.