I don’t even know why this is news:
Soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a Department of Defense policy that a high-ranking Army official said would take effect Monday.
The Defense Department will begin blocking access “worldwide” to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites on its computers and networks, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander.
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The new policy is different because it creates a blanket ban on several sites used by military personnel to exchange messages, pictures, video and audio with family and friends.
Even though the media is hyping this up as a new policy decision, it’s really not. In my experience, every base has its own network policies, with each having its own say as to what sites are blocked or restricted. When I went to Iraq, MySpace, YouTube, and even this blog were restricted. Here in the states, those sites are almost *expected* to be blocked for security and “official duty” concerns on government-owned computers and computer systems.