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To cut back on US taxpayer generated payroll being sunk into Defense Department employee time-wasting surfing sites like MySpace and YouTube, the Pentagon has banned 13 sites from being reached from its network, all but citing such 'recreational traffic' as a National security threat.

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ameliog
May 14, 2007, 4:34 p.m.
Who's kidding who? It's the free flow of information they fear, not the wasted productivity. If they can't control it, they try to kill it.
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engineer
May 14, 2007, 5:37 p.m.
The Bush dictatorship is at it again!! The end of Democracy in the US. We'll get it back in 2009 or sooner --- I hope!!!
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911veritas
May 14, 2007, 6:22 p.m.
This has been covered by the BBC also...
US blocks soldiers from websites

Soldiers use the sites to keep in touch with loved ones
The US military is blocking troops from using certain websites for sharing photos, video clips and messages.

A memo from General BB Bell, US Forces Korea commander, says use of YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular sites via US military portals will be blocked.
The US says the use is taking up too much bandwidth and slows down the military's computer system.
But a US Strategic Command spokesman said a "secondary benefit" was to help operational security.
Link : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/66551...