In response to the article, “YouTube’s Legal Issues Grow,” I feel that it is ultimately the individual’s responsibility to recognize what should or should not be posted on a freely accessible world wide website. There are infinite ways to present illegal, racial, unethical, and discriminatory actions on YouTube; however, the consequences of the individual posting such actions must be taken into account. Although the First Amendment allows us the freedom of speech, that freedom can only be taken so far when racial or illegal incidents are taken into account. It is the responsibility of the individual to be able to recognize that negative repercussions can result from posting illegal or racial acts for the world to see. Along with the individual responsibility, I also feel that YouTube should develop some sort of censors to help prevent these negative video postings from occurring. If YouTube censors and the individual work together against the postings of discriminatory and illegal videos, I feel that there would be a higher rate of success to prevent such videos from reaching YouTube. As far as individual responsibility is concerned, whomever is posting videos on YouTube must be aware of how their particular post may offend a person from another culture, and also how it may result in legal issues. If someone chooses to post him or herself doing something illegal, they are putting themselves in the position to receive consequences for that particular action. I do believe that YouTube should develop censors on certain illegal and racial videos; but I feel that the responsibility to prevent such videos from even occurring should be placed more heavily on the individual.
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