MySpace Off Limits

Colleges and Universities A-Z Service Academy Parents
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<p>Military puts MySpace and other sites off limits:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/14/military.sites.blocked.ap/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/14/military.sites.blocked.ap/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>From the article:</p>

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Citing security concerns and technological limits, the Pentagon has cut off access to those sites for personnel using the Defense Department's computer network.

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Memos about the change went out in February, and it took effect last week. It does not affect the Internet cafes that soldiers in Iraq use that are not connected to the Defense Department's network. </p>

<p>The cafe sites are run by a private vendor, FUBI (For US By Iraqis).</p>

<p>Also, the ban also does not affect other sites, such as Yahoo, and does not prevent soldiers from sending messages and photos to their families by e-mail.

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<p>Looks like they're trying to save bandwidth on the DoD servers...</p>

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<p>anyone know.. is facebook included in the off-limits category?</p>

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<p>The sites covered by the ban are: </p>

<p>YouTube
Metacafe
IFilm
StupidVideos
FileCabi
MySpace
BlackPlanet
Hi5
Pandora
MTV
1.fm
live365
Photobucket</p>

<p>I've never even heard of some of those.... :confused:</p>

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<p>OH THE HUMANITY!!! </p>

<p>The Spartan Life one would think a cadet lives at West Point has now become a little more Spartan lol.</p>

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<p>Photobucket is pretty good for picture hosting, so that's a bummer.</p>

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<p>
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OH THE HUMANITY!!!

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<p><a href="http://raven.subsume.com/mu/ohTheHugeManatee.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://raven.subsume.com/mu/ohTheHugeManatee.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Sorry. Couldn't resist. :D</p>

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<p>^^^^:D Very cute, Zaph.</p>

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<p>Interesting that Facebook is not on the list...they must have a good lobbyist.
:D</p>

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<p>i think enlisted are more likely to have a myspace than a facebook... up until just recently, facebook was a college-student-only deal.</p>

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<p>What are you, an elitist? ha ha :D</p>

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<p>turn on the audio:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10493563%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10493563&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>try the link in the middle of this page:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3&agg=0&prgDate=05-28-2007&view=storyview%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3&agg=0&prgDate=05-28-2007&view=storyview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>