Comments on: Censoring the Troops http://politicsandpress.com/2007/censoring-the-troops/ The interaction of the press and politics; public diplomacy, and daily absurdities. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:05:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Chris http://politicsandpress.com/2007/censoring-the-troops/#comment-263 Tue, 15 May 2007 15:59:02 +0000 http://politicsandpress.com/2007/censoring-the-troops/#comment-263 And now the military has announced that myspace and youtube will now be blocked for anyone using military bandwidth. And while this can completely make sense from a technology view (the videos and little myspace trinkets can take up a large portion of bandwidth and slow the overall network down considerably) one has to wonder if this is really the true reason... or if it has something to do with the ease of posting videos and pictures and blogs on both sites. And now the military has announced that myspace and youtube will now be blocked for anyone using military bandwidth.

And while this can completely make sense from a technology view (the videos and little myspace trinkets can take up a large portion of bandwidth and slow the overall network down considerably) one has to wonder if this is really the true reason… or if it has something to do with the ease of posting videos and pictures and blogs on both sites.

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