What would Bob Hope say? For that matter, what can anyone say? Men and women are sacrificing the normalcy of their daily lives, sometimes being badly hurt, sometimes getting killed. Be that as it may, the Department of Defense is eliminating the little entertainment and diversion they have; the DOD is banning one of the major ties linking
This past Monday, May 14, twelve sites were banned from view by service personnel using official department computers worldwide. Affected, all social media sites, are: YouTube, Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos, FileCabi, MySpace, BlackPlanet, Hi5, Pandora, MTV, 1.fm, live 365, and Photobucket.
The government’s official reason for the action is network efficiency and security and to relieve the strain on bandwidth. The Pentagon also cites technological limits; mission-critical areas must have the bandwidth available at all times. This at a time when the Defense Department has accelerated its YouTube campaign to reach a younger audience and to show the war efforts favorably.
The ban only extends to military network equipment and has to effect on private computers or on the Internet Cafes run by a private vendor. These alternatives are not, however, available to all military personnel stationed in
From a military standpoint, this move might have a valid reason. Still, what would Bob Hope say?
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