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

YouTube is a is a popular free video sharing website which allows users upload, view, and share video clips. It is user friendly and allows us to have access of a variety of video clips. It is even named TIME magazine's "Invention of the year for 2006". Despite YouTube's recognisable achievements, several countries like Thailand, Turkey and Iran are banning the site, assuming that it has no ethics and has been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money. I agree to this sentence to a great extent.

In 2006, YouTube hosted videos like Lazy Sunday and Olympics 2006 and both of this videos were supposed to be copyrighted materials. In February 2006, NBC demanded YouTube to remove these copyrighted materials. Despite have a policy of prohibitting submission of copyrighted content, it was still possible to upload the copyrighted videos onto YouTube. We can obviously infer that YouTube is established for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.

YouTube is stretching the limits of ethical norm. Teasers of George Bush uploaded on YouTube is not only rude, it may also propagate users to dislike George Bush. In Thailand, YouTube was even being banned as it boradcast material critical of the country's king. A video, which is forty-four seconds in length, showed graffiti over the king's face. The video also showed feets being placed over the king's face, which is considered very offensive to the Thais.

Often, videos on YouTube may convey the wrong messages. For example, the health-related videos. Instead of trying to educate the public on various health matters, it ended misleading the public. Ted Gansler, director of medical content at the American Cancer Society, agrees. He says that one clip attributing breast cancer to abortion serves as an example of how online video clips can spread inaccurate information.

YouTube has too many faults even though it has benefited many of its users. Therefore, i strongly feel that Youtube is created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.