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

Many videos of all sorts are uploaded in YouTube. But how many of them contain real information and is not against anyone, any religion, any race?

There are some videos that are useful for viewers. Some are made to explain how treatments that are not easily explained by words. There are articles stating that parents looked out for videos in YouTube for tips to help children’s disorder. However, professionals said that not all the information is accurate. Furthermore all individuals are different and probably not able to be treated with the same method. They have to seek doctor’s advice before taking any risk. Thus, these videos might mislead people to the wrong treatment.

Videos displayed can be against some religions too. Recently, Thailand government banned access to You Tube video-uploading website after it broadcasted a film showing graffiti over the king’s face. This arouses viewer’s negative views on this issue. They tend to be bias against Thai without knowing what is actually happening. Fortunately, people who uploaded videos which are against people of other religion will be charged by law, but the good name of Thailand cannot be as good compared to the past.

Last year, a few secondary schools uploaded videos of their students fighting in the school compound. When the person who uploaded the video is questioned, he only said that he upload it for fun. Does violence equate to fun for teens? How many people eventually saw that video and perhaps learning from it? This is not a very good side of the school and yet the students want to be notorious, by showing how they behave, to the world. Has YouTube been a medium to support such videos to be uploaded?

Why was YouTube set up? It was mainly for entertainment (the audience) and for money (the founders). YouTube is gaining support from people as they are able to watch videos of comedy or any drama series they like. If one missed an episode of his favourite drama series, or do not have sufficient money for a movie ticket, is able to view them on YouTube for free! With the popular demand of audience, YouTube hence brought in a sum of money for the founders.

In conclusion, although YouTube was established with the core reason for entertainment and money, but they also take actions and measures to prevent people from violating the law. The impacts of the information on the videos are huge. People believe that these videos are of ‘first hand information’ thus believing the ‘facts’ shown in the videos. They should implement more measures to prevent unauthorized video from revealing to the world, preventing false information to be reached out to the world.