Absolutely. Someone's response to a high-stress work environment, an affair of the heart gone wrong, latent psychological issues... the "merely mundane" possibilities that could happen anywhere are still plenty realistic. Shit happens.

I guess I'm not so much speculating as calling on companies like Youtube to hire more protection for their staff. They're really putting themselves out there, and if this is or isn't somehow related to Youtube's business, they are eventually going to get hit. Read the comments on any of the interviews Youtube staff have done, and weep.

My point was more: Youtube is taking remote action on people they don't know that can have life altering effects through their policies. The kind of content Youtube blocks is almost definitely created by at least a few damaged people. Eventually they are going to be the target of violence from such people.

They need to be proactive and realize the risks they place their employees in simply by virtue of their scale and policy choices. And this goes for other similar companies too. Security for employees should be more of a priority than it is - their employees become public figures.