Youtube

Youtube was founded by Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley. Youtube first launched in 2005, and the first video was uploaded in April by Karim named 'Me at the Zoo.’ The inspiration for Youtube came from Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl, and the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
 Youtube didn’t really become famous until Nike published their commercial on the social media platform and received over one million views. Less than a year later, due to the extremely fast growth, Google bought the company for around $1.65 billion.

 I believe that 2009 was a significant milestone for Youtube because it launched HD  (now up to 1080p rather than just 720p), received one billion video views per day, and gained a partnership with Channel 4.

Over the next three years, Youtube added many features to its platform. It introduced new types of ads, and the site soon hit three billion daily views. Many gamers and vloggers realized they now had an opportunity to earn a living by posting videos onto YouTube and receiving revenue from ads and support. Soon after, in 2012, Youtube became a multi-billion dollar company.

Now Youtube has added live streaming, and about 5 billion videos are watched each day. In addition, over 1.3 billion people use the site, and 300 hours of video are uploaded each and every minute. YouTube has become the largest and most popular video distribution platform on the Internet.

Youtube has had a big impact on many people's lives because now they can make a decent living off of creating, editing, and uploading videos onto YouTube. People spend all day on Youtube, finding videos. You can watch Youtube for entertainment, but many videos have advice for people who are seeking help. An example would be if you wanted beauty tips and needed to watch beauty how-to’s and tutorials or if you needed to watch a video on how to change a tire when you are stranded somewhere.

Youtube can also take a more serious approach and broadcast presidential elections, politics, commercials, and recent news. You can be persuaded off of people’s opinionated videos on Youtube. Some videos on topics such as political campaigns and debates can be misleading to viewers when people end up making a biased video.
 Biased videos show the negative impact on Youtube in our society by showing only what society wants to see and leaving out the full story. It can cause people to feel a positive or negative way about a subject without even getting all the context of the story.
https://interestingengineering.com/youtube-its-history-and-impact-on-the-internet 
https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/10/the-history-of-youtube/
https://www.themycenaean.org/2015/11/youtubes-impact-on-our-society/

Antiwar.com

Antiwar.com

 

The first thing I noticed when logging onto Antiwar.com is that there is no fluff or masking. The writers tell you what you wouldn't read usually on CNN or Fox. One thing I did notice about this website is that most articles are most writers are left-winged. The writer writes from a libertarian viewpoint.

As you can tell from the title of the website, this is a channel that expresses articles about those opposing if war. Most articles have to do with US foreign policy. Even those this is a website protected by the First Amendment's freedom of speech, I can see why this website wouldn't be as popular. On many other websites people have accused this website to be  " biased based on holding non-interventionist Libertarian positions." and "Mixed for factual reporting due to not always sourcing information as well as a failed fact check." 

I could understand how this sight would be very entertaining and nice to read to libertarians since it talks about many of their beliefs, but I could see how it would outrage or upset republicans. Since this site is seen to be so biased, it makes me realize how this website would only be popular to one side.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/anti-war/

Google Violates Antitrust Law... Or Does It?

 Google Violates Antitrust Law... Or Does It?

It has been stated that 48 states have accused Google of violating the antitrust law. Attorney's in these 48 states are all leading separate investigations on what is happening with Google. The only two states that are not involved in the investigation are California and Alabama. 

The overall point of the probing is for the states to try to prove if Google broke the law in reaching dominance in the industry and trying to squash its rivals. It is stated that advertising dominance started in Google's 2007 purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick. This is when Google was fined for "unfairly inserted exclusivity clauses into contracts with advertisers." This was the start of the unfairness that rivals have to face in the online advertising business. 

There is an argument that when asking Google about, for example, the best hair products to use for damaged hair. Instead of receiving the best results I would receive products that have paid Google to appear higher on the search page. As a result of this, I would get a product that was not as good because Google prioritized subsidiaries instead of what their users really need. This is just one clear example of Google controlling what internet users are seeing.  

In concerns of Google squishing its rivals in this article, it states how Google this year will "control 31% of global digital ad dollars." This is worrisome for Google's smaller competitors because this raises the concern of how much power Google has in setting rates and favoriting and referring their own services. Since Google will be referring their own services it makes it hard for smaller competitors to even been seen. 

Overall though even though this is an ongoing investigation there is no clear action of what will be made of these accusations. This ends with Google executive Walker speaking about how Google doesn't hurt but assists. Emphasizing that the company's products help people every day.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-antitrust-probe-48-u-s-states-launch-antitrust-investigation-of-google-dominance-in-search-ads-and-data/ 

Supreme Court

The Supreme Court

To start off in the Supreme Court, there are nine Supreme Court justices. The average time a court justice is in the court is sixteen years. The Supreme Court comes to a court to draw the boundaries of government power. They have a lot of responsibility and authority by being able to tell the president, congress, and the states what they may or may not do.
 The Supreme Court was not always respected. It was not until John Marshall's period that the new court earned public respect as a co-equal branch of government.

The most divisive issue in American history happened twenty years later when Dred Scott, a Missouri slave, declared his freedom under an act of congress. Under Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, the court rules that congress had no power to ban slavery and that blacks could never be citizens. The civil war cleared that, and the Dred Scott decision is now known " as the court's great self- inflicted wound." After the war, the constitution was amended. They abolished slavery, defined citizenship, and granted voting rights.

Can you believe that the Supreme Court receives more than 100 new cases every week, and about 7,000 cases a year! They are mostly petitions for certiorari, which are written arguments attempting to persuade the court that a lower court ruling was incorrect. But they only really accept about 100 a year for review. The ones that are accepted are sent to the justices once a week.

Each justice is assisted by a small staff of law clerks and secretaries, but each justice is in charge of deciding each case. By the time a case arrives, the facts have been established in a trial court. This court considers the legal questions. Justices meet weekly in a conference to discuss which cases they will accept and deny. It has no precedential value if they deny a case.

The Supreme Court hears cases in public. Lawyers on opposing sides of each case are allowed to argue for 30 minutes each. Within a few days after hearing arguments the court justices gather in their conference room alone to vote. Whichever side wins the vote needs to write an opinion about the legal reasons for the decision. Any justice may write a separate opinion. Compromise is inevitable.
The court's tradition is to announce decisions and release opinions in the late-term in June.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWRoXYRsaeo&feature=youtu.be