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“YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.” Do you agree?
I do not think that Youtube has no ethics and is created solely for entertainment and profits. From the origins and brief history of Youtube, we could see that it started off just as a platform for people to share their personal videos. Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, two of the three founders of Youtube told Times magazine that the inspiration for the creation of Youtube from them having difficulties sharing some of their personal videos online. Furthermore, the initial publicity of the website involves netizens posting their ‘homemade’ videos on Youtube to stand a chance of winning attractive prizes. This very fact shows that Youtube was created for people from all walks of life, all over the world to share and provide entertainment with original videos that they made themselves.
I could safely say that even the creators of Youtube did not expected it to grow into a billion dollar worth website where people share controversial videos that entangle their company in countless copyright infringements and even face bans from certain countries. If the initial aims of this website was just ingenuously to provide people with an easy and user-friendly way of sharing their own videos with other for fun and entertainment, how could we possibly accuse such an innovation to be non-ethical? Yes, it may be true that Youtube is created for entertainment, but for money, I quite hard to say so. No one, including its three founders would have thought that their idea would manifest into something worth of billions in such a short period of time. Even if Steve, Chad and Jawed (the other founder) were after profit, they would have very well charge users of Youtube for service.
Ethical or not, Youtube is currently facing many external threats. From lawsuits by Viacom for copyright infringements to accusations of being a bad influence to being ban for insulting the founders of modern Turkey and Thailand’s King, Youtube has certainly painted a repulsive picture for its reputation. But how much of these non-ethical accusations can be directed at the company when 65000 videos are being uploaded daily. No doubt there will be some illicit videos ended up on the web. I not saying that Youtube entirely innocent, however, we must not forget that everything that goes up onto that website originates from the users worldwide. A survey showed that Youtube has about 20 million visitors each month thus maybe just a handful of unlawful people who uploads some morally unsound videos would be enough to tarnish Youtube’s reputation.
What I would like to say here is that, a website that operates on the basics of millions of people worldwide, could not be simply labeled as ethical or non-ethical.
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