| US Dept of Defense starts new ‘war on web’ sites |
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| Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 15 May 2007 | |
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Some of the sites in question are: youtube.com, pandora.com, photobucket.com, myspace.com, live365.com, hi5.com, metacafe.com, mtv.com, ifilm.com, blackplanet.com, stupidvideos.com and filecabi.com, with some online reports actually putting the total at 13 sites. According to US Strategic Command officials, the sites were blocked from Dept. of Defense computers “due to bandwidth issues”, and told Garamone that “It is a proactive measure: we do not want a problem with demand for these sites clogging the networks”. They also said that: “is in no way a comment on the content, purpose or uses of the Web sites themselves. It is solely a bandwidth/network management issue.” The article also states that the Dept. of Defense has “more than 15,000 local and regional networks and more than 5 million computers in the grid”. All those computers used to access YouTube or other time-wasting sites would surely put some strain on the bandwidth and computing infrastructure. Dept. of Defense officials who need to access the sites, presumably to see the latest video clips from terrorist networks or for other operational reasons, are able to request an exception to the policy. Other sites may be added or removed from the block list in the future, the article reports. In addition, because the government network is the one that soldiers posted around the world use to access the Internet, many military personnel who may have garnered some enjoyment from the sites (as a tiny slice of respite from the grinding gears of war) may find yet another thing about military life to grumble about. {moscomment}
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