Technology
YouTube spoke to San Bruno officials about improving security at HQ
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YouTube managers have told officials in San Bruno,
California, that they intend to bulk up security at the
company’s headquarters, the city’s community development
director told Business Insider. -
Some of the upgrades come as YouTube seeks to expand
its San Bruno campus. -
The talks follow the April shooting attack on YouTube
by a
38-year-old, disgruntled video
creator.
YouTube managers have spoken to San Bruno city officials about
beefing up office security at headquarters, David Woltering, the
city’s community development director, told Business Insider on
Monday.
Woltering and his staff have had discussions with YouTube
representatives “about various measures to better secure points
of access to their facilities here in San Bruno,” he said in a
statement. “These measures include fencing, increased
surveillance, and improved access controls.”
Woltering was responding to questions posed to him last
week when the
city unveiled development plans for the area surrounding
YouTube’s headquarters. YouTube seeks to expand its office space,
add thousands of workers, as well as build more parking
facilities. It’s not yet clear if YouTube will make some of the
sought-after security upgrades part of this
expansion.
YouTube was not immediately available for comment.
Woltering said that YouTube began bolstering security at the San
Bruno campus in the form of adding larger numbers of “on-site
security personnel,” four months ago, immediately after Nasim
Aghdam arrived there on April 3 armed
with a 9 mm and opened fire on employees, wounding three. She
later killed herself.
Aghdam’s attack is believed to be the first shooting at YouTube
but employees have
received numerous death threats going back more than a
decade, Business Insider reported after the shooting.
As YouTube’s popularity has grown and as some video creators have
become more dependent on the ad revenue their clips generate, the
service is often accused of harboring a wide range of biases
against one group or another. Police have said that Aghdam
was a disgruntled YouTube video creator who believed the video
service was discriminating against her because of her strong
views on animal rights.
On Monday, fans of political commentator and conspiracy theorist
Alex Jones took to online message boards to claim YouTube was
part of a left-wing plot to silence conservative voices.
YouTube had followed Facebook, Spotify and Apple in
removing Jones content from its site for violating their terms of
service.
“Alex Jones and Infowars are a national treasure!,” wrote one
Twitter user. “YouTube, Google, and
Fakebook are cowardly leftist criminals.”
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