I'm not sure why you think I'm trying to justify violence against anyone. Even if you could argue that some YouTube employees are morally complicit, that's no r

I'm not sure why you think I'm trying to justify violence against anyone. Even if you could argue that some YouTube employees are morally complicit, that's no reason to take a gun to a YouTube office and shoot people. She didn't shoot people because YouTube uses unethical business practices. She shot people because she was an unhinged individual with extremist views about lots of things. She saw YouTube's apathy as a personal conspiracy against her content. Whether YouTube's business practices are ethical and whether it's okay to shoot YouTube employees because of it are two separate questions. You don't need to be an ISIS sympathiser to take issue with what the US military is doing overseas. FWIW whether YouTube's business practices are "okay" strongly depends on your political ideology and cultural background. It seems Americans, especially on HN, tend to hold the opinion that conning people into making bad decisions is (to some degree) okay because it's the victim's fault for being naive and careless. I'm German and thus have grown up in a country with strong consumer protection laws -- YouTube's behavior strikes me as obviously nefarious, but I'm well aware this perception is not universal.