YouTube shooting spotlights debate raging inside video giant


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 05 Apr 2018

People wait to be escorted into a YouTube office building in San Bruno, Calif., Wednesday, April 4, 2018. A woman suspected of shooting three people at YouTube headquarters before killing herself was furious with the company because it had stopped paying her for videos she posted on the platform, her father said Tuesday, April 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

The April 3 shooting at YouTube shines a macabre spotlight on a debate that’s ripped through the online video giant for the past year. 

Nasim Aghdam, a 39-year-old woman from San Diego who made YouTube videos, arrived at the company’s headquarters in San Bruno, California, around lunchtime with a 9-millimeter Smith and Wesson handgun. She opened fire, injuring at least three, before killing herself. Police said they believed she was “upset with the policies and practices of YouTube.” 

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