1. “YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.” Do you agree?

You Tube is a free-sharing online portal, accessible to all users, as long as they have internet access. It has facilitated in the sharing of videos, across boundaries and cultures.

It is of course inevitable that You Tube is created for the purpose of generating income. Would you not want recognition for an ingenious invention that you have come up with? Imagine that you put in your utmost, only to realise at the end of the day that you do not stand to gain any benefit from it. Every website or organisation would want to earn from their inventions.

If You Tube has no ethics, it would not be freely accessible to all users. Instead, the creator should just charge a minimal fee for viewing of the videos to generate more income for himself. However, he made it a free portal for all. By doing so, world-wide users are able to access videos freely as it bears no cost to view these videos.

Take for example the ban of You Tube in Thailand. A video depicting the Thai king's face filled with grafitti was openly showcased in the video. Was this an unethical act done by the creator of You Tube or many users using You Tube? This was a childish and imprudent act of a sole user. Maybe the creator of You Tube did not take into account on how to limit or filter unethical videos which might be posted, but does this neccessarily mean that You Tube has no morals at all?

You Tube is not merely created for the sole purpose of money and entertainment. In the hope of educating people, it also serves as an online platform for people to share their different perspectives on certain videos.

However, it is deficient in filtering out videos of explicit content or deemed as unethical. This would thus lead to the misconception of people, making people think of You Tube as an unethical mode of sharing videos. To put it in this manner, You Tube would seem as though it has no morals. Thus, You Tube should implement a system whereby certain videos would be banned automatically from being uploaded.

In all, You Tube is generally a website that means well for the public. Without it, would we have seen and gained new insights into videos we have never seen before? Being ethical would depend largely on the moral sense of the online community that uses You Tube.