Silicon Valley shooter angry at YouTube
SAN BRUNO: A dead woman’s website is a catalogue of her passion for animal rights and her anger at YouTube.
She complains of ‘‘closeminded’’ YouTube employees suppressing her page views and stifling her content. She complains about a lack of revenue.
‘‘YouTube filtered my channels to keep them from getting views!’’ she wrote on the site, which includes videos promoting veganism and photos of a woman in an array of outfits, including long gowns and a camouflage unitard. She speaks in Persian and Turkish.
‘‘There is no equal growth opportunity on YOUTUBE or any other video sharing site, your channel will grow if they want to !!!!! ’’
It is the website investigators are looking at as they try to piece together the motive of a woman — identified by a law enforcement source as Nasim
Aghdam — who stormed on to YouTube’s sprawling San Bruno campus with a 9mm pistol and opened fire in a courtyard during lunchtime, wounding three
people before turning the gun on herself.
Yesterday’s eruption of gun violence in Silicon Valley hit a nation still reeling from recent
mass shootings and gripped by a tense gun control debate.
‘‘This is a terrible day in the United States, when once again we have a multiplecasualty situation,’’ said Dr Andre Campbell, a trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, which was treating victims.
The shooting left a 36yearold man in critical condition, a 32yearold woman with serious injuries and a 27yearold woman in fair condition. A fourth person suffered an ankle injury while fleeing.
Sundar Pichai, chief executive of YouTube parent company Google, said the firm was ‘‘doing everything we can to support’’ those injured in the shooting and their families.
Law enforcement sources had thought the shooting was a domestic incident, but were focused on a grudge against YouTube. —