YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam was vegan who complained about ‘suppression’
Aghdam’s Facebook page shows a photo of her standing on a street corner in February 2017 with the heading “YouTube Dictatorship.”…
“Youtube filtered my channels to keep them from getting views!” Aghdam wrote on her website. “There is no free speech in real world & you will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not supported by the system. Videos of targeted users are filtered & merely relegated, so that people can hardly see their videos!”…
YouTube “stopped everything and now she has no income,” her father, Ismail Aghdam, said in a brief phone interview.
… It appears Aghdam was a longtime animal rights activist. Nearly a decade ago, she took part in a demonstration organized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California to protest the killing of pigs during a military exercise….
n one Instagram video, Aghdam appears in a black hood and asks her audience: “When it comes to freedom of speech, do you think that Iran is better than USA or USA is better than Iran?”
According to her website, she had four YouTube channels — one in Farsi, one in Turkish, one in English and one devoted to making beaded necklaces.
Public records show she worked for her father’s electrical company and once had a company of her own called Peace Thunder. Her Facebook page described her simply as an “artist.
The suspected shooter in the YouTube shooting incident has been named as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, NBC News reports. Police say after shooting three people Tuesday afternoon, she then shot and killed herself… Video KSBW Action News 8