“YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.” Do you agree?
I agree only to a certain extend that YouTube was created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money. Any corporations, business, etc, worked on the basis of collecting revenues, earning profits so that their business keeps going and expand. Why should it be of any difference for YouTube? There is no free lunch in the world. Hence, YouTube has all the rights to demand monetary exchange for the clips and videos that was put up by them for entertainment sake.
However, I do not agree totally that YouTube has no ethnics. Yes, YouTube puts up all types of videos and clips. Racist clips, scandals of politicians, movie trailers and shows that children will otherwise, not be able to watch and sometimes these sparked dispute or violence when people immitate those videos. Recently, a clip was put up by a handful of Chinese men, which shows (or rather let us hear,because its a sound clip) how they teased an Indian Muslim selling food at the Arcade (a muslim stall). They pestered him for pork in his halal stall. Although the clip that last for about 5 mins was hilarious, the lack of respect they showed to the other racial group may have a snowballing and catastrophic effect on the multi-racial society like Singapore.
Yet, YouTube may serve as a ringing alarm for us in certain areas. The videos like the one mentioned above, may be touching on touchy issue of racism, it serves as a warning bell to people that some of us are really overboard. The reason people said that it has no ethnics because it presents truths of what people outside are thinking and doing. Unlike the mass media which are intensely censored and the "bad'' side are sieved out, YouTube provides a comprehensive idea of the outside world. Mr Brown show for example, targets advertisments, policies by relating it in a way that some people may actually think. It showed the flip side of an issue, the side that may have been hidden for motives.
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