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CS103F: Ethical Foundations of Computer Science

Blog Post 7

Due Friday, March 8, 2019, by 11:59p

Before beginning this blog post, please watch Framing and Legal Rights & Ethical Responsibilities from Ethics Unwrapped.

For this blog post, please consider the profit model of services such as YouTube, which has recently been under fire for a failure to regulate both advertisers and content. YouTube finds itself in two related predicaments: whether people should be able to profit from promoting conspiracy theories and "false facts" on YouTube, and how much control advertisers should have over the content their ads appear alongside. For background, these resouces may be useful to you, though you should consider other, more recent sources, too:

As you contemplate this situation and its ethicality consider:

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Finally, The Ethics Centre has blog posts that may be useful as examples--they are often longer than your requirement, though. One of the recent good examples is "Why Victims Remain Silent... and Then Find Their Voice".