Skip to Content
MySpace and YouTube Too Dangerous For Troops in Iraq, Unprotected Humvees Still A-OK

May 15th, 2007

Last month, the Army announced new rules regarding soldiers use of the web. No longer would they be free to blog or send personal emails home without the explicit consent of their supervising officers. Then the military arm backtracked, saying those might be the rules, but they wouldn’t be enforced.

And now? Just two weeks in to the new regulations, it seems like some of the new rulebook’s pages are sticking. Soldiers have just been banned from accessing MySpace, YouTube, and a hoard of other hip Web 2.0 social networking sites — or at least using the Army’s computers to do so. The decorated higher-ups are claiming security concerns; they don’t want troops revealing too much about their operations on something so public as the Internet.

So goodbye, BlackPlanet. Sayonara, Metacafe. It’s been nice knowing you, iFilm. Peace out, Photobucket. Would hate to see you posting photos and videos of you and your comrades actually smiling, relaxing, or enjoying yourselves in any manner.

Tagged: MySpace · Top · YouTube · Iraq · Military
Related Posts

• 06/27/07: Media Blitz (Comments: 0)
• 06/26/07: MySpace’s Co-Founders Need to Learn Quick That Rupert Murdoch is a Cheap, Cheap Bastard (Comments: 0)
• 06/21/07: Dow Jones’ Board Tells Bancrofts to Shut Their Trap (Comments: 1)
• 06/20/07: News Corp. Adds Yahoo to the List of Things It Wants to Control (Comments: 1)
• 06/14/07: Media Blitz (Comments: 0)

Comments (0)

There are no comments yet. Post yours!

You must log in to post a comment.

Need an account? Sign up! Registration is free and easy.