Nasim Aghdam and Political Sanitization of Social Media

As with most mass shooters in recent memory, Nasim Aghdam had serious mental issues. From the cold, dead look of her eyes to the bizarre videos and the rambling vegan diatribes she posted online, one can easily conclude she had serious problems.

Aghdam randomly shot three people and killed herself because she was angry at Google’s YouTube for blocking and slapping age restrictions on her videos.

This is a common practice at YouTube. I personally experienced this when the site placed an age restriction on a Newsbud video I produced. The video has nearly 900,000 views. It would undoubtedly surpass a million views if Google hadn’t decided to age restrict it. This entails being signed in to YouTube and verifying age. In other words, if you’re not a member of YouTube, you can’t view the video. It’s a roundabout form of corporate censorship.

While there is obviously no excuse for Aghdam’s behavior, her severe reaction demonstrates the frustration many feel over YouTube’s policy, which is designed to reduce views of politically incorrect videos.

The excuse in my case was a clip that showed people killed by snipers in Syria. This reason is absurd because there are hundreds if not thousands of violent videos on Youtube. In fact, the video was age restricted because it tells the truth about the Syrian “civil war”—a truth at odds with the establishment narrative—and because it is popular.

Frankly, I am surprised the video wasn’t taken down, but then that fate is usually reserved for activists Google claims are “hateful” or “racist.” This excuse is now used to shut down the accounts of Alt-right or New Right personalities that have large followings.

It remains to be seen how Google will react to this incident. It may provide the excuse to further restrict videos and close down accounts. The establishment is leaning heavily on social media to ban people who hold political views radically different than those put out by the mainstream, which is shaped primarily by corporate media and entertainment industries functioning as propaganda and behavior modification mechanisms for the state.

Once again, cui bono comes into play. Who benefits from this shooting? First and foremost, the cultural Marxists and progressives attacking the Bill of Rights, and secondly those working behind the scenes to sanitize social media and reduce if not eliminate its effectiveness to counter and debunk the official narrative on a number of political and social issues.