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2007-05-14 Home Front: WoT

DoD to block troop access to Myspace, Youtube, MTV, Blackplanet , photobucket

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Posted by Delphi2005 2007-05-14 10:49|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I'm offended: Rantburg isn't popular enough?

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-05-14 14:37|| 2007-05-14 14:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Rantburg is secure.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-05-14 14:52|| 2007-05-14 14:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Gotta keep Rbee because of the Joe factor. Secure communications are everything.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-05-14 15:01|| 2007-05-14 15:01|| Front Page Top

#4 The happy middle ground will happen with providing a recreational Internet service to the troops, on a different network. It makes sense to split the two.

The trick is to make it private para-military, like the USO, so there is still some control over operations.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-14 16:06|| 2007-05-14 16:06|| Front Page Top

#5 A lot of this has to do with the amount of bandwidth some of these sites suck up. The pipes we're using to get in-country are only so big.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2007-05-14 18:07|| 2007-05-14 18:07|| Front Page Top

#6 limited diameter intertubes

/Sen. Stevens

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-14 18:44|| 2007-05-14 18:44|| Front Page Top

#7 when the son hits youtube I give up on internet access for the night.

Some sites just take too much bandwidth.

Posted by 3dc 2007-05-14 19:26|| 2007-05-14 19:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Already done in some places.

Posted by Pappy 2007-05-14 21:52|| 2007-05-14 21:52|| Front Page Top

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