US blocks soldiers from websites
The article is a bit confusing. on the one hand, a General states that use of YouTube, MySpace and 11 other sites will be blocked.
The US says the use is taking up too much bandwidth and slows down the military’s computer system.
Later it states that the Pentagon has setup a new channel on YouTube that is now very popular.
The Pentagon only recently started posting its own
videos on YouTube, showing soldiers in action in Iraq in a move
designed to reach out to a younger audience and to show the successes
of the US military.
In two months, the Multi-National Force-Iraq channel has
climbed to 16th in YouTube’s most subscribed-to listing and has, the
military says, just passed the one million video-views mark.
If bandwidth is a problem and the use of YouTube and MySpace by US soldiers slows down military computers, then we ave serious problems with the network design they are using. Sounds like to me what we need is some good Network Engineers, not censorship. I would have hoped that the US soldier’s access to the Internet was on a separate physical network that the ‘military computers’ - you know, for security reasons. Or at least VLAN the US soldier’s off and restrict them by QoS. (sigh…)
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