YouTube, MySpace, etc. Banned by Pentagon on DoD Networks
As of May 14th, the U.S. Department of Defense has begun blocking access to YouTube, BlackPlanet, Pandora, MTV, Photobukect, MySpace and several other uber-popular sites to users of the Department of Defense networks.
The DoD cite two reasons for taking such action:
- to lighten the demand on networks
- to manage the information flow from the field
Critics of this DoD move, such as Russell Shaw of ZDNet, consider censorship to be a primary motive,
I call it censorship. You don’t want soldiers posting videos that can be readily accessed by friends back home.
What do you think?
