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US Military Launches YouTube Channel
Jenga717 writes "The US military has launched its own channel on YouTube, in efforts to shift the media's focus of Iraq from a negative to a more positive light, and to 'counter the messages of anti-American sites.' From the article: 'The footage is not picked specifically to show the military in a good light ... and is only edited for reasons of time or content too graphic to be shown on YouTube ... And while all the clips currently posted have been shot by the military's combat cameramen, soldiers and marines have been invited to submit their own clips.' The question is, where are they supposed to submit them? Starting 'on or about 14 May 2007', the Department of Defense will block troop access to Myspace, Youtube, MTV, and more sites, due to a 'growing concern for our unclassified DoD Internet, known as the NIPRNET'." More commentary below.
The troops will be unable to access these sites from any computer on the DoD network, yet are still able to access them from their home computers — which they can't use on the DoD network. So why the censorship? The DoD cites security reasons, but the Commander of Global Network Operations (DoD's Joint Task Force)"has noted a significant increase in the use of DoD network resources tied up by individuals visiting certain recreational Internet sites." The PDF released by the DoD reminds troops that this "benefits not only you, your fellow Servicemembers, and Civilian employees, but preserves our vital networks for conducting official DoD business in peace and war." Sounds like quite a sticky situation."
... until it has sleeping cats falling off TV's, narcoleptic dogs and drunk people doing the Macarena.
Only if your a terrorist.
- accidently shooting your friend in the back
- blowing up children by mistake
- shooting at reporters as they wave the white flag of war... ect
Apparently, those are Afghan children, not Iraqi children.
Don't blame me -- I voted for Roslin.
I'm sorry, I know that everyone here at slashdot disagrees with me, but luckily I have some karma built up, so I can say something like this.
You boot-licking Republican cocksucker, you think you have karma to burn? I piss on Steve Jobs in Apple threads, that's some fucking karma!
Ok, seriously, what's with the whiny persecution complex, and where the in Allah's name are you getting your information? People had to turn to BBC and al-fucking-Jazeera to get some real news on the invasion, because all the American outlets were only feeding us what the military was giving them.
And in case you forgot, our soldiers have gone to jail for raping and killing Iraqis. That's what's great about this country, some modicum of justice is actually served because not everything can be hidden from teh librul media!
Thank you for invoking Godwin's Law.
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