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Friday, April 20, 2007
10:34 PM
“YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.” Do you agree?
Founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, Youtube was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion. From the http://dictionary.com, ethics is a branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions. Yes, i do agree that Youtube has no ethics and that it was created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money, but there are circumstance where there are exceptions. Thus, there is no right or wrong, it is just what we perceived it to be with our knowledge and beliefs.
Youtube provides a venue for video sharing among friends, families and between people internationally. It promotes online video viewing rather than through mediums such as the television. You can look for a particular video by conveniently searching and downloading. For example, typing in words in the search bar would enable many successful matching results of what you want as people place tags -- key descriptions of their uploads in their videos. Many people upload videos like drama series, MTVs, etc onto Youtube. There is often very little uploading of educational or informative materials done by Youtube directors. Hence, it is deemed as a source of entertainment mainly to a large extent.
However, it is not true to say that Youtube has no ethics. There is no right nor wrong to a certain extent with the action of uploading of videos to be shared among other people as it is solely for the motive of entertainment, and not other delinquent ulterior motives as such. This is also evident with the fact that there are examples of videos that are utilize as a propaganda to discourage and stop racism. Thus, if we were to comment that Youtube has no ethics, it is partly wrong as solid exceptional case like this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OobDdCzjP_E do exist.
