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posted by chromas on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the oh-FFS-another dept.

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From NPR:

Police are responding to an active shooter at the headquarters of YouTube. A hospital has received "several" patients from the incident, a spokesman says.

Local TV news reports show pictures of people evacuating a building with their hands over their heads. Each person was being frisked by a police officer, apparently to make sure that they pose no threat.

Local law enforcement officials have not issued any information.

From Reuters:

Police in San Bruno warned people in a Twitter message to stay away from the address where YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, is based.

"We are responding to an active shooter. Please stay away from Cherry Ave & Bay Hill Drive," San Bruno police said on Twitter.

Lisa Kim, a spokeswoman for Stanford Health Care, said the hospital was receiving between four to five patients from the shooting incident at the YouTube offices.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Pav on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:38PM (4 children)

    by Pav (114) on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:38PM (#662518)

    If you listen to what she says her yoga videos were demonitised because they were sexual... which they most definately didn't seem to be - just yoga in some pretty standard gym gear. I would say it's not far-fetched for the Iranian regime, or similar religious conservatives to have reported her. She certainly seemed to equate YouTube with the dictatorship in the way she talked. It seemed monetisation her appeal was to no avail, and her earnings from 300K subscribers and many viewers was reduced to $0.10. Of course it may also have been that she was lying, or telling a half truth.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday April 04 2018, @07:25PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday April 04 2018, @07:25PM (#662595) Journal

    There is really no point in wondering why something got demonetized, because YouTube bots or turks can demonetize videos for any little thing or on a whim. This is a consequence of the adpocalypse and growing advertiser discomfort over the lack of fine-tuned control they have over placing ads next to certain content.

    Almost all big YouTubers have been hit by demonetization or lower ad revenue. But they manage to adapt or move on instead of going on a rampage (disclaimer: I haven't read the latest about this incident).

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    • (Score: 2) by Pav on Wednesday April 04 2018, @11:27PM (2 children)

      by Pav (114) on Wednesday April 04 2018, @11:27PM (#662682)

      Of course not...

      But if she isn't a citizen she was facing homelessness in America... I'd imagine that wouldn't be a fun idea for someone who had worked on maintaining her looks. And it's not like she could get financial help even if she DID have support from home - their currency was already worth nothing next to the dollar, and is on a steep downward trajectory due to sanctions. It looks like she bet everything she had on a future in the USA, lost on the cusp of success for a nonsensical/arbitrary reason that she percieved as malicious, and went killdozer [wikipedia.org] crazy.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:26PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:26PM (#662967)

        ^ seems most likely

        • (Score: 2) by Pav on Saturday April 07 2018, @11:54PM

          by Pav (114) on Saturday April 07 2018, @11:54PM (#663836)

          Turns out she was already living in her car [cbs17.com]... and in addition she wasn't muslim. She was bah'ai [religionnews.com], a religious minority in Iran, and are one of the few religions who could claim to be more into peace than buddhists.