Shooter hated YouTube: Iranian animal rights protester, 39, who shot three staff at video giant’s HQ before killing herself, had a vendetta against ‘dictatorial’ site for censoring her videos and not paying her

• Woman opened fire with a handgun at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California on Tuesday afternoon
• She has been identified as 39-year-old Nasim Aghdam who lived in San Diego
• Police said she shot a man and two women who were taken to hospital suffering from gunshot wounds
• Authorities found the woman dead on the campus when they arrived
• Aghdam was a prolific YouTuber who had ranted online claiming the company was censoring her content
• Her father Ismail Aghdam said he warned police that she hated YouTube and feared she might be headed to their headquarters after she went missing from her home 470 miles away
• Footage showed terrified employees evacuating the building in a line with their arms in the air

By EMILY CRANE and JENNIFER SMITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 16:14 EST, 3 April 2018 | UPDATED: 10:16 EST, 4 April 2018

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The woman who opened fire on three people before killing herself at YouTube’s California headquarters has been identified as a frequent user of the site who was furious with the company for their ‘dictatorial’ new policies.

Nasim Aghdam, 39, shot a man and two women with a handgun when she stormed YouTube‘s headquarters in San Bruno on Tuesday afternoon. 

Aghdam was a prolific YouTuber who had ranted online against the company’s new policies and accused them of censoring her videos. Read More

Witnesses say Aghdam was wearing glasses and a scarf when she managed to walk onto the YouTube campus and open fire on employees in what police believe is a random shooting.

Law enforcement officials had initially said the shooting was being investigated as a domestic dispute after early indications suggested she had shot her boyfriend. 

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Nasim Aghdam, 39, has been identified as the woman who shot a man and two women with a handgun when she stormed YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California on Tuesday+37

Vegan bodybuilder, singer, athlete, artist, and director are just some of the words that Nasim Aghdam used to describe herself. In one video (pictured), she hit out at YouTube for imposing an age restriction on her work out video+37

Authorities cover a body with a yellow tarp at YouTube’s headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday after a female shooter opened fire before she shot and killed herself+37

Aghdam, who was a self-described animal rights activist and ‘vegan bodybuilder’, had a significant online presence with multiple YouTube channels and social media pages.

In a video that Aghdam posted back in January 2017, she vented about her content being censored. She also said that her YouTube channel, which had more than 5,000 subscribers, used to get many views but claimed she started getting less when the company ‘filtered’ her videos.

Aghdam’s YouTube channels and social media pages were all removed in the hours after the shooting.

Her father Ismail Aghdam said she had told family members that YouTube had stopped paying her for content she posted on the site. YouTube video creators can earn money from advertisements, but for various reasons the firm sometimes ‘de-monetizes’ channels meaning clips don’t run with adverts.

He told the Bay Area News Group that he had warned police his daughter hated YouTube and she might be headed to their headquarters.

He had reported her missing from Southern California on Monday morning after she went two days without answering her phone. Ismail said police contacted him at about 2am on Tuesday to say they had found her sleeping in her car roughly 470 miles from her home town. 

Aghdam, who was a self-confessed animal rights activist and ‘vegan bodybuilder’, had a significant online presence with multiple YouTube channels and social media pages+37

Aghdam was a frequent user of YouTube who was furious with the company for their ‘dictatorial’ new policies+37

Aghdam was a prolific YouTuber who had ranted online against the company’s new policies and for ‘censoring her videos and not paying her’+37

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In a video that Aghdam posted back in 2017, she vented about her content being ‘discriminated and filtered’. She is a self-described Persian animal rights activist and ‘vegan bodybuilder’+37

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Aghdam is a self-described Persian animal rights activist and ‘vegan bodybuilder’. She was a prolific YouTuber who had ranted online against the company’s new policies

Shooting comes after YouTube policy change

The father of Nasim Aghdam says she was angry at the company because it stopped paying her for videos she posted on the platform.

Ismail Aghdam told the Bay Area News Group that he warned police his daughter might be going to YouTube because she ‘hated’ the company.

Details of any payments she may have been receiving have not yet been disclosed.  

The shooting comes weeks after YouTube agreed to manually review all videos in its ‘preferred’ section so advertisers were sure they were not promoting harmful videos.

As well as manual reviews, YouTube tightened its rules on who qualifies for posting money-making ads.

Previously, channels with 10,000 total views qualified for the YouTube Partner Program which allows creators to collect some income from the adverts placed before their videos.

But YouTube’s parent company Google announced that from February 20, channels would need 1,000 subscribers and to have racked up 4,000 hours of watch time over the last 12 months regardless of total views, to qualify.

This is the biggest change to advertising rules on the site since its inception – and is another attempt to prevent the platform being ‘co-opted by bad actors’ after persistent complaints from advertisers over the past twelve months.

The changes came just weeks after YouTuber Logan Paul’s video showing the body of a suicide victim reached the site’s trending page before being removed.

YouTube’s new threshold means a creator making a weekly ten-minute video would need 1,000 subscribers and an average of 462 views per video to start receiving ad revenue.

Hours later at about 1pm, officers and federal agents swarmed YouTube’s headquarters after dozens of panicked employees called 911 to report gunfire.

When they arrived, police found Aghdam dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said three people were taken to hospitals in San Francisco with gunshot wounds.  Investigators do not believe Nasim Aghdam specifically targeted the three victims.

A 36-year-old man was in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman was in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman was in fair condition following the shooting.

Television news footage showed terrified employees leaving the building in a line, holding their arms in the air for police to inspect as they were leaving the building. 

Officers patted down people to make sure none had weapons as police vehicles surrounded the area. 

Senior software engineer Zach Vorhies said a fire alarm had gone off in the building and workers were calmly evacuating before they realized it was an active shooting. 

Vorhies said as they were leaving he saw the shooter in a courtyard yelling: ‘Come at me, or come get me.’

He said he froze and then noticed a victim on his back with what looked like a gunshot wound to his stomach. Vorhies said an officer with an assault rifle then came through a security door. 

Another employee, Dianna Arnspiger, said she was on the building’s second floor when she heard gun shots, ran to a window and saw the shooter on a patio outside. 

She said the woman wore glasses and a scarf and was using a ‘big huge pistol.’ 

‘It was a woman and she was firing her gun. I just said, ‘Shooter,’ and everybody started running,’ Arnspiger said. ‘It was terrifying.’

The police chief said at a press conference that officers discovered one victim with a gunshot wound when they arrived and then found the shooter with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound several minutes later.

He said two additional gunshot victims were later located at an adjacent business and that a fourth injured person suffered an ankle injury. 

The adjacent business was a Carl’s Jr on the same plaza where two women fled after being shot.

Police did not release any further information on the suspect or comment on her possible motives for the shooting rampage.

The shooting had no known connection to terrorism, US government security officials said.

Disturbing live accounts were given by YouTube employees who took to Twitter as the shooting unfolded. Police respond to a possible shooter at YouTube HQ in San BrunoLoaded: 0%Progress: 0%0:00PreviousPlaySkipMuteCurrent Time0:00/Duration Time0:34FullscreenNeed Text

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Authorities found the shooter’s body shortly after arriving. Her body, pictured above covered by a yellow tarp, was found near the shattered door (above on right) +37

Terrified employees were spotted leaving YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California in a line after a shooter opened fire on Tuesday afternoon+37

A SWAT team is picturing entering YouTube HQ in San Bruno, California, on Tuesday after reports of shots being fired inside +37

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An injured woman stands outside YouTube’s headquarters, while another employee cries on the phone after escaping the shooting on Tuesday

In a flurry of tweets, project manager Todd Sherman said: ‘We were sitting in a meeting and then we heard people running because it was rumbling the floor. First thought was earthquake. 

‘After existing (sic) the room we still didn’t know what was going on but more people were running. Seemed serious and not like a drill. 

‘We headed towards the exit and then saw more people and someone said that there was a person with a gun. S**t. 

‘At that point every new person I saw was a potential shooter. Someone else said that the person shot out the back doors and then shot themselves.

‘I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs. Peaked (sic) around for threats and then we headed downstairs and out the front.’

Employee Vadim Lavrusik was one of the first to report the shooting, tweeting at around 1pm on Tuesday: ‘Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers.’

Soon after, he tweeted: ‘Safe. Got evacuated it. Outside now.’ +37

Officers and federal agents swarmed YouTube’s headquarters complex just before 1pm after dozens of panicked employees called 911 to report gunfire+37

Heavily armed police stood guard outside the front entrance of YouTube’s headquarters after the shooting broke out on Tuesday afternoon+37

Police search a building at YouTube’s corporate headquarters as an active shooter situation was underway in San Bruno on Tuesday+37

YouTube employees leave the scene on Tuesday after a woman shot four people then herself+37

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the parent company of YouTube was doing everything it can to support the victims and their families

Google CEO Sundar Pichai called the shooting a ‘horrific act of violence’. 

He said the parent company of YouTube was doing everything it can to support the victims and their families.

Pichai also said the company ‘will continue to provide support to help everyone in our Google family heal from this unimaginable tragedy’.

The YouTube headquarters has more than a thousand engineers and other employees in several buildings on its 200,000 sq ft campus. 

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There was an onslaught of emergency vehicles at the scene moments after the shots were fired+37

Officers are pictured running towards YouTube’s San Bruno HQ on Tuesday amid reports of a shooter

‘Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved. Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene,’ he tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. 

Following the shooting, California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher speculated that the shooter could have been an illegal immigrant.

Without any facts, Rohrabacher drew links between the shooting and sanctuary cities during an interview with the Fox Business Network.

‘You were going to discuss with me about sanctuary cities and the sanctuary state movement, and it fits right into what you’re talking about right now,’ he said.

‘Would anyone be surprised? We have a state government in California that’s trying to prevent our law enforcement people from working with the federal law enforcement people to get together the criminal illegal aliens, to deal with criminal illegal aliens.’  

Vegan bodybuilder, athlete, artist, comedian, poet, model, singer, host, actor, director, producer: The MANY faces of YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam

Vegan bodybuilder, singer, athlete, artist, and director are just some of the words that Nasim Aghdan used to describe herself. But on Tuesday only one phrase was being used to describe the 39-year-old San Diego woman: YouTube shooter.

Aghdam has been identified as the suspect who opened fire outside of the company’s headquarters in San Bruno, injuring three people before killing herself.

In the hours after the shooting Aghdam’s bizarre online presence has unfurled, revealing an obsession with YouTube’s policies and her channel views.

Aghdam had multiple YouTube channels, which featured videos ranging from ab workouts to what she claimed was the ‘first Persian TV commercial and music video regarding animal rights and veganism’.

She also had an Instagram page, which Aghdam said she preferred, that featured numerous graphic images of animals being mistreated.+37

Aghdam seemed fixated on the belief that her YouTube views were sinking, posting screen grabs that showed her views had dropped by more than half in nine months +37

Aghdam, who referred to herself as a ‘vegan bodybuilder’, also frequently posted about animal rights and posted with animals on her social media pages +37

Aghdam even once posted a picture from her pet rabbit’s funeral on her Instagram page +37

Aghdam once joined a PETA protest at Camp Pendleton to fight the Marines’ use of pigs in military-trauma training (pictured) +37

Aghdam also had a separate Instagram account, which was sometimes censored because she posted graphic videos of animal abuse 

Aghdam seemed fixated on the belief that her YouTube views were sinking, posting screen grabs that showed her views had dropped by more than half in nine months.

One grab from January 15, 2016 shows Aghdam had received 182,776 views while another grab from October 14 that year showed her video had received 94,617 views.

Aghdam, who identified as Persian, posted videos in both English and Farsi and claimed her latter channel was being filtered by ‘close-minded YouTube employees’.+37

Aghdam founded a non-profit company for animal rights called Peace Thunder in 2011, but it is currently listed as ‘dissolved’ by the California business register+37

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Aghdam posted numerous photos with her pet bunny and appeared to have an Instagram page dedicated solely to her vegan posts +37

Aghdam did discuss the company in a past interview with Vegan Idea World, saying that veganism was not just a diet but a ‘belief that affects all stages of life’+37

Aghdam also liked to post photos of herself in bright evening gowns and in various poses +37

Aghdam also directed herself in music videos, one of which she claimed was the first ‘Persian TV commercial and music video regarding animal rights and veganism’+37

Aghdam also posted this comparison, seeming to use what appears to be prosthetic breasts+37

Aghdam shot a man and two women with a handgun when she stormed YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno on Tuesday afternoon+37

She had been missing for two days and Aghdam’s father warned police that she could be headed for YouTube because she ‘hated’ the company 

She claimed one video, which showed her doing ab exercises, was ‘age-restricted’ in an attempt to ‘reduce views and suppress and discourage’ her from making videos.

Aghdam, who referred to herself as a ‘vegan bodybuilder’, also frequently posted about animal rights and even held a funeral for her rabbit.

She also posted videos of animal abuse, including a dog being boiled alive, as well as pictures of herself in evening gowns posing in front of fake painted backgrounds.

Leaked Video Shows Twitter Executives Plotting Global Censorship

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Project Veritas has published a second video leaked from a whistleblower inside of Twitter showing Jack Dorsey and members of his executive team plotting their bizarre thought censorship agenda. The video features Vijaya Gadde a terrible Indian woman who is in charge of Twitter’s “public safety.” She describes the thought process that went into banning Donald Trump and QAnon accounts along with a plan to implement similar censorship practices on a global scale. Their activist employees also apparently wrote a letter demanding Trump be banned off the site.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OkQgTY5_cF0%3Ffeature%3Doembed

The video reveals these people to be outright lunatics. They seem to actually believe that censoring speech they disagree with will help prevent real world violence.

This is obviously wrong. Censoring speech only increases the possibility of violence because people who have an outlet to express grievances are able to express their unhappiness in a non-violent way. Remove access to that outlet only causes anger and contempt from the person or group that was banned.

And with everything going on in the world today with the virus hoax, lockdowns, economic collapse etc.. censoring people’s ability to communicate is the exact opposite of what you’d want to do if your goal was to reduce violent outcomes. What they are doing only increases the possibility of violent outcomes.

Remember the Iranian woman who went to YouTube’s HQ and shot a bunch of people after they were fucking around with her account? That’s just one example.

It’s absolutely insane that this ridiculous Indian woman is in a position where she can determine who is and isn’t allowed on the digital public square. Who the hell does she thinks she is?

Twitter should be deleted off the Internet for claiming to be a platform while acting as a publisher. On top of that, all these thought policing assholes should be arrested and tried for treason against America and crimes relating to their interference in the 2020 election. These people are evil scum.