YOUTUBE QUESTION 1
Youtube has been very popular among teens and even adults now, as it has many drama videos and mtvs available for free. So the big question is does youtube really have no ethics and is created just for money and entertainment? The answer is a NO, though it does have some videos that are unethical.
In actual fact, youtube has not been making much money because, in order to turn youtube into a profitable corporation, the people who came up with it has to go through a lot of tedious work such as legal disputes. They also must find a way maintain their unique identity without getting swallowed up by Google. Hence, the owners of this web did not turn it into a profitable corporation. So how can it be said that youtube is created for the sole purpose of money? If that was really the case, I am sure the owners would have gone through all the tedious work just to earn large amounts of money. Furthermore, youtube is not just for entertainment purposes. The videos uploaded actually have educational values too. According to newscientist.com, YouTube has hosted a wide variety of clips offering tips about how to deal with medical issues. Hence people who wish to find out more about health issues can go to youtube and get these educational videos they need.
Also, youtube does not have overtly-sexual videos. They are being removed from youtube once they are discovered. So this shows that youtube does have some ethics. The argument for youtube having no ethics would be the recent issue regarding the video which was offensive to the Thai king. However, it would be very unfair to youtube by saying it has no ethics at all based on this one video and this sort of incidents do not happen often. Hence I feel that youtube is not created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money and does have some ethics.
In actual fact, youtube has not been making much money because, in order to turn youtube into a profitable corporation, the people who came up with it has to go through a lot of tedious work such as legal disputes. They also must find a way maintain their unique identity without getting swallowed up by Google. Hence, the owners of this web did not turn it into a profitable corporation. So how can it be said that youtube is created for the sole purpose of money? If that was really the case, I am sure the owners would have gone through all the tedious work just to earn large amounts of money. Furthermore, youtube is not just for entertainment purposes. The videos uploaded actually have educational values too. According to newscientist.com, YouTube has hosted a wide variety of clips offering tips about how to deal with medical issues. Hence people who wish to find out more about health issues can go to youtube and get these educational videos they need.
Also, youtube does not have overtly-sexual videos. They are being removed from youtube once they are discovered. So this shows that youtube does have some ethics. The argument for youtube having no ethics would be the recent issue regarding the video which was offensive to the Thai king. However, it would be very unfair to youtube by saying it has no ethics at all based on this one video and this sort of incidents do not happen often. Hence I feel that youtube is not created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money and does have some ethics.
posted by huikiow at
8:51 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Hui kiow,
i agree that YouTube has got some beneficial and informative clippings and it serves to help educate people. However, how often does one go to YouTube to view those as compared to those that watch, say, Prison Break? Isn't entertainment in a way more emphasize when YouTube chooses clippings. In this circumstance, is YouTube being ethnical or unethnical?
cheers,
esther
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