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Employees Who Worked at YouTube Say Violent Threats From Volatile 'Creators' Have Been Going on For Years (businessinsider.com)
Anonymous readers share a report: YouTube managers had no way to predict Nasim Aghdam would go on a bloody rampage, but they had plenty of reasons to fear that someone like her might one day show up, say former employees. Aghdam was the 38-year-old, disgruntled YouTube video creator who arrived at the company's San Bruno, California, headquarters on April 3 and began blasting away with a 9mm handgun. She wounded three staffers before she killed herself. Police say leading up to the shooting Aghdam, who was from San Diego, believed YouTube sought to censor her and ruin her life.
This kind of violence is unprecedented in YouTube's 13-year-history, though Aghdam's anger and paranoia aren't unique among the millions of people who create and post videos to the site, according to five former YouTube employees. In exclusive interviews, they told Business Insider that going back to the service's earliest days, frustrated creators -- seething over one of YouTube's policy changes or the other -- have threatened staffers with violence. Typically the threats were delivered via email. At least once, a video creator confronted a YouTube employee face-to-face and promised he would "destroy" him.
This kind of violence is unprecedented in YouTube's 13-year-history, though Aghdam's anger and paranoia aren't unique among the millions of people who create and post videos to the site, according to five former YouTube employees. In exclusive interviews, they told Business Insider that going back to the service's earliest days, frustrated creators -- seething over one of YouTube's policy changes or the other -- have threatened staffers with violence. Typically the threats were delivered via email. At least once, a video creator confronted a YouTube employee face-to-face and promised he would "destroy" him.
Guns aren't designed for killing anything. Their function is to propel an object at great velocities. In that respect they are no different than an automobile (which terrorists have been using as weapons).
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
If the purpose of guns is to kill people, then nearly every gun has been used wrong, nearly every time. Guns are so rarely used for their purpose, that you're only slightly exaggerating if you say they're never used for their purpose.
Purely from empirical analysis, I have strong evidence that the purpose of guns is to put holes in paper targets.
Ergo, empirical analysis is the wrong way to understand guns. So.. what do we use, when we're unable to learn from experience (since experience gives us the result that guns' purpose is to poke holes in paper)?
There's one answer that stands tall above all the rest: mysticism. We have faith that guns are meant to kill people, and fuck everyone who counts how many times who fired at what!