So I am having an ethical/moral dilemma. Should we really be watching some youtube videos? First of all-let me start with the fact that I am NOT saying we should take all youtube videos offline--I do believe in the 1st amendment to apply -that you can post most of what you want-
But here's my point-one of my friend's sent around a youtube video through a myspace bulletin-and it was of 6 cheerleaders (like 15 yrs old or something) and they go beat the crap out of 1 girl who left a comment on their myspace pages that they didn't like. So my friend had sent the video around through the bulletin-and she explained it-and was totally against it and was trying to say how ridiculous things have gotten--and then I went to click on the video and it was "no longer available" so I'm assuming youtube people felt the need to erase it because they're minors and it's probably pretty violent--
So I didn't see it but I was still going to click on it. I would never go out of my way to watch a fight--even in high school-when people would fight and everyone crowds around screaming "fight fight fight." Yeah-I definitely never did that-I would just walk away and I really really really despise violence-like it makes me sick-but for some reason if it's on youtube I'll attempt to watch it--
I think youtube was right in taking off that video (I assume that's what happened)--but what are our moral and ethical responsibilities as the watchers/listeners/etc??
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YouTube has almost become the visual version of MySpace, hasn't it? I think in order to answer your question, we would have to work out the ethics and responsibility of MySpacers. I know there's some awesome MySpacers, but there's also some vindictive ones. I think there's definite parallels. For myself, I don't identify as a MySpacer simply because I deleted the account I had on there. I just wasn't using it.
I just saw on the local (Salinas) news the other day about gang members posting photos of their enemies on YouTube with X's across their faces, a sort of "virtual hit list" I suppose and some of those shown have been killed recently as well. The police officer interviewed said there is nothing they can do because it isn't a direct threat (similar to the radio DJ who sort of insinuates that it would be kinda cool if something bad happened to somebody but not actually giving an order to carry out violence). I think that this is going to get out of hand rather quickly and be a big issue. Yesterday's news was covered with a story about a woman who posted a video of her totally ripping her husband who has asked for a divorce. She apparently gives details of their sex life and his personal habits as she rants about how unfair she is being treated. But as always, who is going to draw the line on free speech and how will it be enforced without stepping on anyone's constitutional rights??
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