female shooter, apparently has a youtube channel and was struggling with the demonitization of some of her content... committed suicide after shooting 3...

You banning females or guns?

Armed teachers at youtube could have prevented this.

I heard Leo DeCrapio played a chick shooting up the You-tube headquarters in a movie once... 😟

Did he learn how to use guns from youtube videos?

The female suspect in Tuesday's shooting at YouTube's headquarters appeared to have an active presence online. YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook accounts connected to the woman featured a wide range of content — from dancing to fitness tips, and commentary on veganism.
San Bruno police identified the suspected shooter as Nasim Aghdam, 39, on Tuesday night.
The woman had expressed some heavy criticism for YouTube's move to demonetize certain channels. She took issue specifically with what she believed to be a targeted reduction in viewership on her videos.
Aghdam also engaged in some political speech.
"BE AWARE! Dictatorship exists in all countries but with different tactics!," a website that appeared to be linked to Aghdam read.
Her alleged Instagram account had over 16,000 followers before it was shut down.
In one missive about YouTube's move to demonetize certain channels, Aghdam said: "There is no equal growth opportunity on YOUTUBE or any other video sharing site, your channel will grow if they want to!!!!!"
Aghdam, a resident of San Diego, reportedly drove from Southern California to San Bruno days before the shooting, the local news station KRON-4 reported.
She is believed to have used a handgun to shoot three people before fatally shooting herself.
A fourth person sustained injuries that were not gun-related.
Investigators earlier on Tuesday said they believed the shooting was connected to a domestic dispute between the woman and her boyfriend, who works at YouTube, a law-enforcement source told Business Insider. The source said authorities do not believe the woman was connected to international terrorism in any way.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/04/04/the-woman-who-opened-fire-at-youtubes-offices-heavily-criticized-the-video-platform-online/23402525/


David (dpnewell)

Pretty sure he never learned to shoot... He just learned how to make funny faces in front of da camera.. 😟

At least she kinda went for the people that are partly to blame.

MK Ultra.

A vegan terrorest.

YouTube and others have done their best to eraser her content, but this is her web cache:

https://everipedia.org/wiki/nasim-aghdam/ 

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So what really caused her to shoot em up? Did a deal go South?

I was oblivious to the whole demonitization thing until a few months ago. New (to me) generation of content 'creators' and providers have been extremely upset by YT policies and 'censorship'. I was reading from hunters and other gun-related sport enthusiasts who were livid. Makes for some interesting free speech arguments. I came from a FOG angle with little understanding of any of it, but figured that YT is a private company that can freely choose what to promote (and delete.) But, I get that the near-monopoly of YT (and all of Google) makes them a target for free speech protections. If YT is really the only viable pipeline, maybe its more of a utility subject to govt oversight, or 'gasp', even regulation. Is it OK for the YT snowflake employee of the week having a bad day to put in an algorithm that removes all ads from, or censure every homemade vid with a Glock in it? I'm borrowing TW's fencepost for now

Not the only ones tho...
There's twitch... I think there's a 3rd as well.

And monetization isn't necessarily the same as a platform. I think her issue was she wasn't getting the ad revenue she had gotten before...

Vimeo i think... neither they nor twitch can do what YouTube does though, especially in terms of ad revenue...

Honestly, what YouTube is doing sucks... they have a very obvious left- leaning bias (although for the life of me i can't figure out why fishing is considered right wing)...

what really started it all is when users started noticing the "trending" section clearly didn't line up with what was actually being most viewed... it was all just promotion of heavily produced content - like John Oliver and Ellen - and promotion of left wing causes.... videos featuring people like Jordan Peterson were being systematically hidden and demonitized.... anything with Sam Harris mentioning Muslims was labeled hate speech...

I get that YouTube is a private company and can do what they want... eventually they'll lose out to a competitor but it'll take awhile... not sure what's stopping/ What it would take to start strictly outdoors video platform... when it does show up it'll be a huge success...

YouTube is ubiquitous in the video delivery rely, IMO, their service is like a power or water utility. That said, some sort of content limitation is almost unavoidable.

As for YouTube screwing over content providers, they are. Content providers were getting paid, some modestly, other very popular providers were getting very large checks. YouTube, in order to improve their bottom line, has figured out a way to cut those payments while retaining the content and collecting advertiser income. This is especially clear when a video is immediately demonetized during the first few days of introduction. The first few days are the time new videos garner the most views. The provider can appeal, get the video remonetized but it's too late for the initial release rush of views. Meanwhile YouTube is running adds on the video from the start and keeping the income.

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Still a private company. If you have a problem with how they are paying their providers.. or what content they provide... then start a new video sharing service where you pay the providers better and don't censor them....

I find it amazing how quickly some here will complain about the free market.

I'ma buy your water company and refuse you service.

About like trying to start your own automobile company. The bandwidth and server capacity to do even a fraction of what YT does would cost several tons of ca$h.

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Mmhmm... so?
If you don't like any of the current models of cars are you going to demand that the current auto manufacturers be forced to make a model you like at a price you want?

Posting your videos online is far from a "necessity". It isn't even "news"... if you are looking at it as a source of revenue then you sure as hell better have alternative content delivery plans as part of your business model.

And it would barely cost you any money to put whatever videos you want online. Start a website and load them. Just a couple hundred bucks and you own everythng

What people want is for their videos to be easily found by people searching IN YOUTUBE... if you want to use their hosting service to be easily found by people searching IN their hosting service... then you have to follow their rules and accept their payment structure.