YouTube: Publisher or Public Forum?

Google/YouTube wants it both ways, with dire consequences for freedom.

Eric George explains, for Prager University:

Brent Bozell on the Left's 'Big Brother' Political Censorship (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Tucker Carlson Slams the Establishment Left's 'Tech Tyranny' (VIDEO)."

At Prager U:

Tucker Carlson Slams the Establishment Left's 'Tech Tyranny' (VIDEO)

Watch:

Lauren Southern Retires

From the "far-right" internet thug life, lol.

She's a sweetie, and fearless to boot.

Read her farewell essay. (Hint: She's tired of the fight, having achieved great things, and wants to go back to school.)

She directed a film full-length feature film, "Borderless," which is a pretty stunning thing for a young hottie like that.

Farewell ❤️

I've enjoyed this all greatly but it's time to start a new chapter of my life. Thank you to all my incredible colleagues who I'll be cheering on in their fight for truth - and my wonderful supporters who made all I've done possible.https://t.co/iK4tu4gGw0

— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) June 3, 2019

Watch the full movie here, "Borderless (2019): Official Documentary."

The Making of a YouTube Radical

I was fascinated with this piece, even though it's a pathetic smear of conservatives. The New York Times was appropriately dragged for it.

.@PatriarchTree The New York Slimes smears “far-right” #YouTube personalities. 🙄 #YouTubePurge cc. @MichelleMalkin https://t.co/87jNXdKpP0

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 8, 2019

See also, the Daily Caller, "The New York Times Somehow Continues to Lose Even More Credibility."

And at Twitchy, "New York Times: The path to YouTube radicalization leads through economist Milton Friedman."

Roaming Millennial on Populism (VIDEO)

She doesn't go by "Roaming Millennial" anymore, because she couldn't get the coveted blue check on Twitter. Hmm, but let's talk about elites, lol.

I'm kidding. Lauren Chen's a good lady, and she pretty much nails it on populism.

Jocko Willink Extreme Ownership (VIDEO)

This dude is rad!

At Amazon, Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition).

And at Prager University:

The Virtue of Nationalism

Yoram Hazony's book is available at Amazon, The Virtue of Nationalism.

And at Prager University:

Allie Beth Stuckey: Vote for Democrats in November (VIDEO)

She's very effective. You can see why radical leftists hate her.

Who Is Karl Marx?

Here's Paul Kengor, for Prager University:



And flashback, "Bicentennial of Birth of Karl Marx, the Man Whose Ideas Killed Untold Millions."

The Left is Your Enemy (VIDEO)

A great, great new video from Dennis Prager:

The New Corporate Censorship

Alex Jones got the boot from four major platforms on Monday. Here's Laura Ingraham's take:

Judeo-Christian Values Are the Real Counterculture

This video just popped up as recommended by YouTube, so I watched. It's old, from 2014, but Dennis Prager's worth watching. I love his wisdom, and it's wise to remind people that the leftist culture is the mainstream culture. Conservative values, and especially conservative religious values, are the counterculture

Here's Prager's recent book, at Amazon, The Rational Bible: Exodus.

And watch, at Prager U:

Justine Ezarik AirPods

She's a clean wench.

Arizona Bobcat Battles Rattlesnake (VIDEO)

This is pretty wild.

At Fox News 10 Phoenix:

Nasim Aghdam Was Angry Over YouTube 'Apocalyspe'

At LAT, "Woman suspected of opening fire at YouTube had battled against platform":

So the San Bruno YouTube HQ shooter was Female, foreign, a Vegan animal activist, off the rails mentally ill, didn't use an AR-15, and shot up a building in the strictest gun control state in America....how fast do you think the mainstream media is going to bury this? pic.twitter.com/oHnkSiolGv

— Mindy Robinson (@iheartmindy) April 4, 2018

The website is a catalog of a woman's passion for animal rights and her anger at YouTube.

She complains of "close-minded" YouTube employees suppressing her page views and stifling her content. She gripes 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's the website investigators are looking at as they try to piece together the motive of a woman — identified as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39 — who stormed onto YouTube's sprawling San Bruno, Calif., campus with a 9-millimeter handgun and opened fire in a courtyard during lunchtime, wounding three people before turning the gun on herself.

The eruption of gun violence Tuesday 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 multiple-casualty situation," said Dr. Andre Campbell, a trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, which is treating victims.

The shooting left a 36-year-old man in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman with serious injuries and a 27-year-old woman in fair condition. A fourth person suffered an ankle injury while fleeing.

In a tweet, President Trump thanked law enforcement and first responders, and said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved."

Law enforcement sources told The Times they initially believed the shooting was a domestic incident, but San Bruno police said late Tuesday there's "no evidence" the shooter knew the victims or targeted specific people. Investigators are now focusing on the alleged shooter's grudge against YouTube.

The YouTube account tied to the website was shut down "due to multiple or severe violations" of the company's policies against spam, deceptive practices and misleading content. But it's unclear exactly when.

The website investigators are probing, titled "Nasime Sabz," translates in Persian to, "Nasim the green." YouTube videos created by an account of the same name can no longer be viewed, but the site also features videos from other sources criticizing YouTube's policies, as well as clips promoting animal rights and veganism. Instagram and Facebook accounts listed on the website were deactivated Tuesday.

Aghdam was quoted in the Los Angeles Times in 2009, speaking at an animal rights protest outside Camp Pendleton.

"For me animal rights equals human rights," said Aghdam, who at the time worked as a construction company office manager. "Just because they can't talk doesn't mean we should take advantage of them."

About two weeks ago, Aghdam vented to her family that YouTube stopped compensating her for her videos, her father told the Bay Area News Group.

Ismail Aghdam said that the family had called police to report his daughter missing Monday because she hadn't answered her phone for two days. He said he had told police she might be going to YouTube because she "hated" the company.

Police in Mountain View, Calif., say they spotted a woman who went by the name Nasim Aghdam asleep in a car in a city parking lot early Tuesday morning and notified her family.

The first reports of a shooting came in to San Mateo County dispatchers before 1 p.m.

Zach Vorhies, a senior software engineer, was sitting at his desk on YouTube's campus when he heard the fire alarm blaring.

He grabbed his electric skateboard and hurried toward an exit. Outside, he heard yelling. On a patio where tech workers often grab lunch, he saw a man lying motionless on his back, blood staining his shirt. As he stared, a police officer with an assault rifle popped through a nearby gate.

Vorhies skateboarded away.

He was one of hundreds of YouTube employees whose workday was thrown into chaos as panic spread across the technology hub south of San Francisco.

"I thought, 'This is a mass casualty event,'" said Vorhies, 37. "I was terrified."

Some employees in a meeting heard rumbling and thought there had been an earthquake. It seemed serious, not just a standard emergency drill. As they moved toward an exit, they heard that someone had a gun.

"I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs," Todd Sherman, a product manager for YouTube tweeted. After peeking around for threats, he headed down the stairs and out the front of the building.

Police in tactical vests, helmets and rifles swarmed the campus soon after, coming upon a chaotic scene as workers ran from the area. Television footage showed people filing away with their hands up...

Still more.

YouTube Shooter Nasim Aghdam Was Mentally Ill

That's my main conclusion after seeing so many tweets about this woman last night. She was a no-talent Internet wannabe who became enraged when her videos were demonetized by YouTube. Folks were mocking the hell out of her, but this woman needed help and bad.

At the San Francisco Chronicle, the Other McCain, and other tweets:

.@PatriarchTree The YouTube HQ shooting is a sad, dark twist in a long-running saga about 'demonetization': 😢 https://t.co/jZ8YUQcthR #NasimAghdam #YouTubeShooting #YouTube #SanBruno

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 4, 2018

After all that YouTube has done to suppress conservative videos, how ironic is it that an Iranian-American animal-rights activist resorted to terroristic violence against the company?  https://t.co/EH0mP0eWH7... https://t.co/di9t7Xt3ko

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) April 4, 2018

The YouTube shooter described herself on her now-banned YouTube page as a "vegan bodybuilder and animal rights activist,"

And yet - someone, somewhere, is almost certainly trying to figure out how to portray her as a right-winger. pic.twitter.com/Ws1UIv4U3u

— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) April 4, 2018

YouTube shooting suspect Nasim Aghdam, who describes herself as a vegan artist, bodybuilder, and animal rights activist, often lashed out at the video platform for censoring and demonetizing her content pic.twitter.com/AsQiCz3SHB

— Brianna Sacks (@bri_sacks) April 4, 2018

Long term, without delicately balanced nutrition and extreme care, Vegans lose their mental health as their bodies use up stores of certain nutrients that are mostly only found in meat protein.

In over twenty years of practice, I saw one healthy vegan and even she supplemented.

— Melissa Mackenzie 🌐 (@MelissaTweets) April 4, 2018

I am not being flippant here, either. YouTube's demonetization policies are capricious and devastate individuals and brands who make their money there. This woman wasn't a great content producer, but others were/are and have seen their businesses ruined by them.

— Melissa Mackenzie 🌐 (@MelissaTweets) April 4, 2018

Facebook and Google have unbelievable power to destroy businesses and can do it with a stroke of an algorithm.

The only other organizations who have that kind of power and wield it equally capriciously is the government.

— Melissa Mackenzie 🌐 (@MelissaTweets) April 4, 2018

The only bigger reality the Left refuses to face than facts about guns is facts about mental health.

There is never an answer about these unstable individuals. In so many cases, family warn law enforcement and are helpless to protecting the community.

— Melissa Mackenzie 🌐 (@MelissaTweets) April 4, 2018

Sharyl Attkisson TEDx Talk on 'Fake News' (VIDEO)

She's so awesome!

Here're her books, Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington and The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote.

And watch:

Logan Paul Apologizes

I've never heard of this guy, but he's stirred up an extremely angry nest of Internet outrage.

At Variety, "Logan Paul Apologizes for Posting Video of Apparent Suicide Victim: 'I Didn't Do It for Views'."

Also, at the Guardian U.K., "YouTube star Logan Paul has apologized after posting a video of the body of an alleged suicide victim he found in a Japanese forest; the video was removed."

And on Twitter, "Okay. Logan Paul is straight up retarded. You find a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest and instead of turning off the video and trying to get help for the dead guy, you vlog it? Seriously. You’re an idiot. I still find it hard to believe @YouTube still supports him."

And from iJustine:

@YouTube you CANNOT ignore this. You have so many incredibly talented content creators who strive to make this platform a better place. Stop promoting the trash that makes us all look bad.

— Justine Ezarik 🎉 (@ijustine) January 2, 2018

Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner (VIDEO)

I love this: