YouTube, MySpace and 11 Other Sites Off Limits to Soldiers
Effective today, the Military is banning YouTube, MySpace and other sites on all its networks and computers according to a memo by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander. The policy is being implemented to protect information and reduce drag on the department's networks, according to Bell.
Unfortunately, many of the blocked sites are used by soldiers to keep up with their family and friends back home. While soldiers will be able to access the sites from their own computer, the Associated Press points out that DOD computers and networks "are the only ones available to many soldiers and sailors in Iraq and Afghanistan."
The sites covered by the ban are the video-sharing sites YouTube, Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos, and FileCabi, the social networking sites MySpace, BlackPlanet and Hi5, music sites Pandora, MTV, and 1.fm, and live365, and the photo-sharing site Photobucket.
Unfortunately, many of the blocked sites are used by soldiers to keep up with their family and friends back home. While soldiers will be able to access the sites from their own computer, the Associated Press points out that DOD computers and networks "are the only ones available to many soldiers and sailors in Iraq and Afghanistan."
The sites covered by the ban are the video-sharing sites YouTube, Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos, and FileCabi, the social networking sites MySpace, BlackPlanet and Hi5, music sites Pandora, MTV, and 1.fm, and live365, and the photo-sharing site Photobucket.
Labels: Military, MySpace, YouTube
posted by Lindsey B. at 9:33 AM
2 Comments:
all in the name of national security, eh? the HSA has become an authority providing excuses for any gov't official who wishes to violate free speech.
don't know about you, but i don't feel safer...
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
"In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army. So vicious was this war propaganda that even God was brought into it. With few exceptions our clergymen joined in the clamor to kill, kill, kill. To kill the Germans. God is on our side...it is His will that the Germans be killed. And in Germany, the good pastors called upon the Germans to kill the allies...to please the same God. That was a part of the general propaganda, built up to make people war conscious and murder conscious. Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. This was the "war to end all wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United States patents. They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure."" -Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, War Is A Racket
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