Police respond to an active shooter at the YouTube headquarters
 

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/police-res...opstories.html

“Police are responding to an active shooter at the YouTube headquarters in California's Bay Area, authorities say, cautioning people to stay away.”

The Shooter has been detained and the shooter was female. Reports are saying

https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike/statu...352610816?s=19

Some good advice here.

Fingers crossed no one got hurt.

They are saying the female shooter is dead.

This doesn't make any sense. This isn't a male and isn't even white.

The Shooter was a Youtube content creator and was getting upset about her videos getting de monitized

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...478711713.html

I have seen how badly Youtube screws content creators and what not so this doesn't surprise me.

Very interesting....

So not a male, not white, not the NRA, in a gun free zone inside a basically gun free state (3rd highest gun control laws in the nation).... oh and not an ar15....

And she killed herself when confronted...

I'm really extra interested in her case, because she's such an outlier in almost every respect.

And especially so because this was apparently over a business decision, and not a domestic dispute as was originally reported.

Yeah, it's definitely unique.

First thought was it was some angry commenter coming home to roost.

Then we found out she was a woman, so "domestic."

Quite different.

Destroys the narrative, doesnt it.

You can check out her website here: www.nasimesabz.com

She's pretty detailed in exactly what her problem is there. Just scroll down.

yep. not white,or a male... so i guess the news networks don't cover it, or at least not wall to wall coverage.

What's sadly goofy was that just hours before, there was a hashtag 'love a muslim' going around twitter that vanished rather fast as soon as the name was announced.

What I didn't know was that California has some of the stricter gun laws around. Banning automatic rifles may not solve ALL violence problems, but it should keep the mass death down dramatically. stupid NRA.

oh, and in other news..all those kids that thought they could make a living off of youtube ad revenue for life. time to get a real job kiddos and actually do some work.

Automatic weapons have been banned since 1986.

whoops, my bad. semi automatic.

That's most pistols.

The whole topic of narratives is pretty interesting, and statement from the trauma surgeon attending has gotten a little media play.

http://wtvr.com/2018/04/03/trauma-su...-gun-violence/

I'm having trouble finding any stories saying conclusively that the shooter is dead. Are we sure she's dead?

I only ever hear bad things about YouTube. I wonder if this incident could have been avoided if content creators had more support such as a union? I recently heard about the internet creators guild. I’m curious if the shooter had contacted them for any type of support.

I actually had no idea Youtube de-monetized "smaller" channels until this. That's really sheisty, and even more lofty is the rationale they give as to why.

Yeah, they raised the number of views or followers or whatever you have to have to get paid. I remember hearing about that awhile back...

I haven’t read any details about the shooters particular situation with being de-monetized or reasons given by Youtube. I’d be interested to know though.

I’ve heard complaints about YouTube business practices from folks with over 200,000 subscribers. So it’s the medium size guys too that are feeling the dissatisfaction.

Yep, youtube removed monetization for channels with under 1000 subscribers and less than 4000 hours of view time on their channel in 12 months...myself included. (Not that I saw any money or many of my videos could earn money anyway.)

We need to ban all guns. From everyone.

This was a fairly recent change, too, wasn't it? Within the last 6 months?

How about no?

How about f*** no? And "good luck"?

The United States and its contemporaries are currently dragging the rest of the world to World War III, regardless of circumstance.

So why not?

What for? Murder is already banned and that doesn’t stop anything.

London (where guns are banned) overtakes New York for murder rates as stabbings surge:

https://steemit.com/informationwar/@...tabbings-surge

Now the UK is looking at banning knives...

Won't do any good. two big problems

1) Humans will find a way to kill one another with or without a gun. We will go back to kungfu fighting on the streets if we will.

2) It won't stop the bad people from getting the guns illegally. The people we don't want guns will find a way to get the guns and the price of guns on black market will sky rocket and those wanting guns will be more desperate for money to pay for said guns.

I am for gun control but saying we need to ban all guns is never going to happen and should never happen

I actually am for banning all fire arms. they are not needed to get b y in life.


but, as has been pointed out, there are other ways to injure people. so that won't help

I get about one check every 5 months or so from them for $100's for my main youtube channel. and thanks to a few of the CGI videos, the views are actually increasing.

I wouldn't be so stupid as to th ink i could actually make a living off of the service though. would be nice for retirement though. i'd be happy with $1,000 a month then heh.

Until the day that they are. There's plenty of other countries out there where having them is not a right... plenty of options.

I have over 1,000 subscribers on Youtube but I've never seen one cent from them. I don't think I ever set it up to get money, though.

Which is?

... I heavily doubt that there is going to be some mass governmental takeover in the future.

When someone breaks into your house. When there's a riot. If foreign invaders come. If domestic tyranny ever becomes a thing, on a small or larger scale.

Because, of people owning guns?
What the **** is that logic? :o

Why are we discounting this as an AWESOME alternative to firearms?
Because this sounds amazing to me!

I get to meet people from all over the world and thanks to knowing more than one language I read news from national newspapers from different countries.

The rest of the world thinks the US has a big gun problem but I guess you guys can debate if it really is true or not.

It's the culture more so than the current gun laws. If you can believe it, there were shooting clubs back in New York City high schools until 1969. So it begs the question as to what's different? One strong possibility is the overwhelming culture of narcissism to the point that now some people are willing to be well-known for infamy, rather than being an upright person that no one will ever know about or, frankly, not care about. ...And thanks to the cultural addiction of social media, that psychological craving for attention is even greater.



One topic that seems to get swept under the rug is law enforcement/government incompetence. Like with Parkland, and the incompetence of the Air Force to submit the gun man's criminal history to the FBI in the Texas church shooting last November, and now this...
So because the government isn't doing it's job, everyone else's freedoms have to be restricted?

It won't be too surprising now, if soon a call for all knives should be banned considering how terrorists are improvising their attacks:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-knife-attack/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hengsha.../#1abadcee6235