Note: Of course the greater crime is shooting innocent workers at a tech company, there is no excuse for that. But it is worth noting why Nasim Najafi Aghdam attacked YouTube yesterday. #
I read about the woman who shot up YouTube yesterday, and found her story sympathetic. Translated to the terminology of net architecture, she attacked a silo that dominated her online existence, both through YouTube and through Google's search engine. #
I sympathize because Google lowers the rank of my blog because I use HTTP. As if that had anything to do with the authority of the information posted here (it doesn't). #
And they complain that pages that were posted before there were mobile devices aren't mobile-friendly. How can I tell them how ridiculous that is? #
And the ultimate humiliation, calling my sites NOT SECURE and their own sites SECURE. Nice going. Who appointed them arbiter of what is and isn't secure on the web? Where do I go to appeal this ruling? #
I also don't like that they took down her videos after the shooting. In coming days, might they take down posts like this one beause it is critical of Google? Of course they will. #
I am a non-violent person, they have nothing to fear from me on that count, but I think one lesson they could take from this experience is they should exercise as little control as possible over the content they serve, or get out of the content serving business. #
