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 MySpace and YouTube Banned YouTube and MySpace are being banned by the U.S. Defense Depatment and they will not be accessible from any departmental computer systems anywhere in the world. Officials claim that this is not a case of censorship but merely a way to save bandwidth and conserve system resources. This comes a real blow to troops stationed overseas since they will be cut off from accessing friends and family in this way.  The U.S. Defense Department will block access to MySpace, YouTube and several other websites on official department computers worldwide, starting today. The site ban comes as an effort to free up network resources and boost network efficiency. Troops and families living at U.S. bases will still be able to access the sites using their private Internet connections, but those stationed in other places around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan, will no longer be able to use these sites... Defense officials have been reviewing a list of sites to ban since February, and insist that the ban has nothing to do with their opinion of the sites; it’s simply a matter of bandwidth use.
(mashable)References: mashable Comment: on Extreme Censorship or Bandwidth Issues? |
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