Pentagon Bans Troops from MySpace & YouTube

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Well... the last line in the first article is true... sites like that do drain office productivity (you're lucky if you work in an office that allows Torrent or Youtube... as they take up lots of bandwidth).

I guess the big deal about spreading positive news or maintaining contact... well, you can send videos at youtube's crappy quality on gmail, right? :lol:
 
AwwWw... gee... I wonder what the "real" reason was?

Speaking of Iraq did ya hear there are massive amounts of barrels of oil "missing" ...?

AwwWw... gee... I wonder where they went? I wonder who's got them?

:rolleyes:
 
I hope "Muhammed's Words 2" had nothing to do with this decision! That video was funny-as-hell, (and a bit controversial)!
 
I can't comment on MySpace (I've never had any reason to visit), but YouTube will make the hours fly by...but productivity falls for a lot of workers at any job when they're addicted to any site (for which MySpace is ranked right up in the top 3, I believe).

Heck, my work bans tons of sites...some are for censorship (but only at an extreme level that isn't acceptable in a public place), others are because they drain time away, and dull the reactions of people working there. Still more sites are banned because downloading warez isn't always a good idea for system security and having enough bandwidth for the 300 computers that need to transmit and accept data.
 
When my son was in Iraq in 2004, we chatted with him almost daily via Yahoo messenger. I was frankly astonished that he was able to do that; the security implications of any soldier in a war zone being able to speak unsupervised, anonymously, with any person in the world are staggering. The privilege was removed near the end of his tour, reason stated was security.
It is the Army's (Navy's, etc.) responsibility to control information coming out of a war zone. It's no different from blacked out lines in the mail during previous wars. Combatants do NOT have the "right" to free expression of information. Censorship is appropriate.
This is not quite the same thing as the Army calling Guantanamo prisoners "combatants" instead of "prisoners," although it's not too much of a stretch to imagine that kind of information modification.
The problems with Myspace and Youtube is that for all intents and purposes they are unmoderated and so widely available.
 
I think they should ban sites such as myspace etc. You know when you join the army that you might be working away for long periods of time. Yes it's hard being away from family but you the soldiers are there to do a job. There are so many security issues relating to this that I'm surprised they are allowed any internet access at all.
 
Wow the military finaly was struck with common sense.

The troops need U-Tube and MY space ?

They should be keeping track of who is going to exlode in front of them .

Why is this an issue ????

I get e-mail and phone calls ..limited but available from my relitives and friends ..when they are NOT in a combat zone .

My COMMON sense tells me its NOT agood idea to be looking at my space when guys with guns and bombs are trying to kill you .
 
Well according to your view they should lose all contact to the outside world.

They shouldnt be allowed to have phone calls if someone is trying to kill them.

They shouldnt have email because they may explode.

Its not like they're on the battlefield commenting their friends on their latest picture, they're on guarded bases.

I'm still okay with myspace being banned, I'm just being controverted.
 
SS69
Well according to your view they should lose all contact to the outside world.

They shouldnt be allowed to have phone calls if someone is trying to kill them.

They shouldnt have email because they may explode.

Its not like they're on the battlefield commenting their friends on their latest picture, they're on guarded bases.

I'm still okay with myspace being banned, I'm just being controverted.
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So when the guy walked into the lunchroom on the guarded base and blew up..or the dude in the green Zone....one of the most heavily guarded places on the planet..I guess thats just an exception ..right ??

What army has that type of distraction in a war Zone ?

The restriction doesn'rt apply to every place . I get regular communication from my family...just not from MY SPACE or U TUBE .

They have e-mail ..in fact its encouraged to help with morale.

In fact they also have PSP and Dual screens ...and a bunch of stuff you would expect...BUT not in the WAR ZONE .

When they go on leave or back to a Secured base they have a line to get for communications and they have other entertaiment .

But the fact remains they are there to wage war . Not play around on my space...or make video's.

Go try that on YOUR job see if they don't boot your butt out the door in 5 minutes . LOL.
 
I think you're post contradicted itself. And if my company hasnt fired me yet for spending 3 hours wraping a pen in duct tape and listening to music, they arent going to fire me for playing around on you tube.

Also, I understand that no place is entirely safe, but what will it make of moral if all their rights are taken away because they could be blown up at any minute? I think they know that just by being over there.
 
I guess I'm with ledhed and wfooshee. I'm actually surprised that they let it slide this long. The troops should be cutoff from that kind of contact with the outside world, where information exchanged are vulnerable to leaks. At least that's what I think.

At my work, everything seems to be blocked, thanks to Websense. :grumpy: But for some reason, we get youtube. Go figure.
 
Yes, by definition this is censorship, but the military censoring what can be viewed by soldiers on military property is no different than a company censoring what employees can view on company property.

I mean, I can't see My space at work and we only get to keep You Tube because it actually is relevant to what our company does (even if the subject material isnt 99.999% of the time). We have a reminder about once a year not to view any streaming content that isn't re;lated to work because of teh strain on teh system. Really, I don't want our military's computer network getting any kind of strain.


DWA
AwwWw... gee... I wonder what the "real" reason was?
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Well, since you seem to have a theory as to what it is please enlighten us.
 

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