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YouTube Shooter 'Nasim Aghdam' Reportedly Had Website With Manifesto That Targeted YouTube For Censorship, Demonetization (abc7news.com)
The woman who entered the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, this morning and started shooting has been identified as Nasim Aghdam. According to ABC7 News, "the YouTube shooter was a user of the platform" and had "a website with an alleged manifesto that targeted YouTube for censorship and demonetization of her video content. According to her website, a possible motivation for the shooting could have been tied to her many YouTube accounts, which she says have seen a decline in viewership over the past few months."
Here is a timeline of events from our original post:
Police have responded to multiple 911 calls at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. From a report: Vadim Lavrusik, a product manager at the company, tweeted that there is an active shooter on campus. The San Bruno Police Department instructed people to stay away from 901 Cherry Avenue, where the company is located. Multiple 911 calls have been received from inside the building, according to a report from local news station KRON. In a Twitter thread, YouTube product manager Todd Sherman said that employees first thought there had been an earthquake. People began running out of their meetings, he said, but before reaching the exit, they got word that someone had a gun. Sherman said he saw blood on the floor and the stairs. He also said the shooter may have committed suicide. Vadim Lavrusik, who works at YouTube's products team, tweeted, "Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers."
Update 20:30GMT: Google has issued the following statement, "we are coordinating with authorities and will provide official information here from Google and YouTube as it becomes available." San Bruno Police said it was "responding to an active shooter. Please stay away from Cherry Ave & Bay Hill Drive."
Update 20:40 GMT: CBS San Francisco reports: KPIX 5 reporter Andria Borba said at least two Homeland Security units were responding. Police radio transmissions describe casualties being taken to local hospitals. San Francisco General Hospital spokesman Brent Andrew said the hospital received patients from the incident but could not confirm a number.
Update 21:20 GMT: ABC News is reporting that the suspected shooter is a white adult female, and that this is "leaning towards a workplace violence situation."
Update 21:30 GMT: Law enforcement has confirmed that the shooter was a white female dressed in a headscarf. The woman reportedly shot her boyfriend then herself. It's unclear exactly how many people have been injured, but early reports estimate at least 9-10 victims. There is no word on their conditions.
Update 03:10 GMT: ABC7 News is reporting that the shooter has been identified as Nasim Aghdam. She reportedly had a website with an alleged manifesto that targeted YouTube for censorship and demonetization of her video content. Contrary to previous reports, she is said to have no relationship with anyone in the YouTube facility.
UPDATE 03:40 GMT: Aghdam's website can be found here.
Update 04:15 GMT: The shooter is believed to have known at least one of the victims, two law enforcement officials told CNN. Other sources suggest the shooter drove up from San Diego. YouTube says her YouTube channel "has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations."
Here is a timeline of events from our original post:
Police have responded to multiple 911 calls at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. From a report: Vadim Lavrusik, a product manager at the company, tweeted that there is an active shooter on campus. The San Bruno Police Department instructed people to stay away from 901 Cherry Avenue, where the company is located. Multiple 911 calls have been received from inside the building, according to a report from local news station KRON. In a Twitter thread, YouTube product manager Todd Sherman said that employees first thought there had been an earthquake. People began running out of their meetings, he said, but before reaching the exit, they got word that someone had a gun. Sherman said he saw blood on the floor and the stairs. He also said the shooter may have committed suicide. Vadim Lavrusik, who works at YouTube's products team, tweeted, "Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers."
Update 20:30GMT: Google has issued the following statement, "we are coordinating with authorities and will provide official information here from Google and YouTube as it becomes available." San Bruno Police said it was "responding to an active shooter. Please stay away from Cherry Ave & Bay Hill Drive."
Update 20:40 GMT: CBS San Francisco reports: KPIX 5 reporter Andria Borba said at least two Homeland Security units were responding. Police radio transmissions describe casualties being taken to local hospitals. San Francisco General Hospital spokesman Brent Andrew said the hospital received patients from the incident but could not confirm a number.
Update 21:20 GMT: ABC News is reporting that the suspected shooter is a white adult female, and that this is "leaning towards a workplace violence situation."
Update 21:30 GMT: Law enforcement has confirmed that the shooter was a white female dressed in a headscarf. The woman reportedly shot her boyfriend then herself. It's unclear exactly how many people have been injured, but early reports estimate at least 9-10 victims. There is no word on their conditions.
Update 03:10 GMT: ABC7 News is reporting that the shooter has been identified as Nasim Aghdam. She reportedly had a website with an alleged manifesto that targeted YouTube for censorship and demonetization of her video content. Contrary to previous reports, she is said to have no relationship with anyone in the YouTube facility.
UPDATE 03:40 GMT: Aghdam's website can be found here.
Update 04:15 GMT: The shooter is believed to have known at least one of the victims, two law enforcement officials told CNN. Other sources suggest the shooter drove up from San Diego. YouTube says her YouTube channel "has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations."
Look through her website. It's linked in the OP. It's worth a few minutes of your time if you're interested in this case, before it gets nuked. Many youtube videos linked through it already are.
She's some kind of a hardcore vegan activist of Iranian origin. Has separate youtube channels for Turkish, Iranian and English audiences. Claims persecution from everyone from youtube to "anti-vegan animal business supporting criminals trying to harm me/kill me" (with picture of what look to be a nail stuck in a car's tyre, with tyre remaining inflated).
Huge message in the middle of the page on yellow background states the following:
BE AWARE! Dictatorship exists in all countries but with different tactics! They only care for .There is no equal growth opportunity on YOUTUBE or any other video sharing site,
personal short term profits & do anything to reach their goals even by fooling simple-minded people,
hiding the truth, manipulating science & everything, putting public mental & physical health at risk,
abusing non-human animals, polluting environment, destroying family values, promoting materialism &
sexual degeneration in the name of freedom,..... & turning people into programmed robots!
"Make the lie big, Make it simple, Keep saying it, And eventually they will believe it" Adolf
Hitler... There is no free speech in real world & you will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not
supported by the system. Videos of targeted users are filtered & merely relegated, so that people can
hardly see their videos!
your channel will grow if they want to!!!!!
Not what I would call the most stable individual in the world. Shame, she's actually quite a good looking woman, with no religious head covering at all in the pictures that are still up. Linking her to islamism based on just the headscarf is likely not an accurate description. Hardcore vegans on the other hand are well known for violently attacking anyone who opposes their views. Just ask the folks working in laboratories that conduct animal testing.
My karma was manually wiped by site staff....
Sorry, no. Your karma was reduced by independent moderators who are offended by your apocryphal ravings and unsubstantiated paranoid blather.
She has a bunch of videos up on Daily Motion they haven't pulled yet. Self centered militant vegan whack job.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
The people in that office were not innocent. They were working for an evil entity. They deserved it, the families they built with that profit from evil deserve their loss.
Yeah, you tell them! Those Charlie Hebdo shooters had the right idea, amirite?
And the mass majority of gun violence IN THE WORLD in the last decade is mainly by white Americans
No. That award goes to MIddle Easterns, with almost 500,000 deaths in Syria alone in the last 7 years.
Close second: Latinos. Just in Mexico there was 30,000 violent deaths last year, which is twice the number of gun victims in the USA. Of course a bunch of Mexican deaths are beheadings or people burnt alive, but still. Throw in about 25,000 in Venezuela, 4,000 in Honduras, etc. and it adds up quickly to a whole lot of non-White people killing non-White people.
As for Iraq, the total death toll since 2003 is between 125,000 and 250,000 (depending who you ask). And the US military is only around 55% white, so even if only the white soldiers were guilty that's still a lot less than what has happened in many non-White countries over the same period.
I know it's easier to blame white males, but facts are not on your side.
lucm, indeed.
There's no indication that she was a muslim, other than her Iranian origin. That's like assuming a East Asian gangster is a Buddhist kung-fu master without any other supporting fact.
Her website and youtube videos do paint her as a hardcore vegan, liberal, and an animal rights activist. Nothing about Allah or Koran or anything religious. She was probably an atheist.
And yes, unsurprisingly there's little to no mention of her and this Youtube shooting on Democratic Underground. They'd be screaming to high heaven if the shooter was named Billy Joe Bob.
The people in that office were not innocent. They were working for an evil entity. They deserved it, the families they built with that profit from evil deserve their loss.
I work at Google. I have friends who work at Youtube. On behalf of all of us and all of them: *Fuck you*.
I personally am proud to work for a company that is a major foundation of the open internet, a company that funnels its profits into things like scanning books and making them publicly available or developing self-driving cars without the profit-driven rush that leads to accidents from uber+tesla. I know not everyone is a fan of what we do, and even though I disagree, I get it and I'm sorry.
But you know what, whether Google is good or bad, the people who work here are just normal people doing the best we can with our lives. We do not deserve what happened, and you can take your judgmental bullshit and stuff it.
your "analysis" is very shallow and not worthy of Slashdot.
First, most "gun violence" in the USA is actually suicides; these are people who want to kill themselves and simply select a gun because it seems fast and certain to work.
Second, much of the remaining "gun violence" in the USA is associated with criminal gang activity. The evidence we have from other countries with strict gun control is that criminal gangs do not go away, they simply kill with illegal guns or with other weapons.
Third, FBI statistics for 2016 (Obama admin numbers, not Trumpian data) point out that more Americans were murdered with bare hands and fists and feet than with rifles. More Americans were also killed with blunt instruments in 2016 than with rifles, and more Americans were also killed with knives than with rifles. The report does NOT lump together hands, knives, and clubs to exceed deaths by rifles - EACH of those categories outnumbered rifle deaths on its own (so much for the need to ban "assault rifles").
We also kill huge numbers with cars, pills, ladders, robes, etc.
It's also true that most mass-shooters are politically left-leaning, most are young men who are either [a] fatherless, [b] on mind-altering drugs, or [c] associated with Islam. Some of our most-infamous shooters have been presidential assassins (or would-be assassins who got off a shot), ALL of which were to the political left of their targets with the exception one who was found clinically insane.
NONE of the nation's infamous mass shooters or assassins has been an NRA member, a politically-active Republican, or a member of a well-known Christian church or Jewish synagogue.
ALL proposals for "gun control" inconvenience or actively violate the Constitutional rights of the very people in the USA who are least likely to do one of these shootings. NONE of the nation's infamous shooters were deterred from doing their actions because there was a law against it. Most of the nation's mass shootings happen in states and/or cities with the toughest gun laws and usually within "gun free zones".
With all of the above, you say "Guns should be banned". [facepalm]
Let's just cut to the chase and ban murder....oh, wait a sec...
It's not about population statistics, it's about the fact that blacks are on average massively more criminal than whites. Per head of population.
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It's not just about stop and frisk, it's about violent crime, burglaries, etc. Why would the police be manipulating that data? We're not in a political climate for them to do so.
== Jez ==
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It's not about population statistics, it's about the fact that blacks are on average massively more criminalized than whites. Per head of population.
Fixed that for you.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Her website screems "underf*cked & emotionally neglected avergage frustrated chump with a gun"
This BBC article paints a slightly different picture: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...
She seems to have been trying to make it as a social media star, with YouTube being a big part of her income. Maybe her only income... No sign of a Patreon account and other platforms like Instagram and Facebook don't pay.
YouTube de-monetized her videos (or maybe whole channels, it's not clear) due to their content, which seems to have been animals right related. Some of it was quite graphic, so naturally YouTube put age restrictions on it and pushed it down the search results. When people search for "pigs" they generally aren't looking for graphic depictions of them being slaughtered or mistreated, and YouTube was certainly never going to put that on the front page.
So her "career" is in the pan, income cut off, and it's basically a given that she had mental health issues if she thought shooting up YouTube was a good idea. Unlike the sexually frustrated "incels" you refer to, she appears to have done little planning or preparation for this attack, hence the low number of casualties.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Not to mention most gun violence in the US is not committed by white men.