Pentagon Launches TroopTube
Monday November 17, 2008
Eighteen months after banning access to YouTube and other social networking and entertainment sites on Defense Department computers, the Pentagon has launched a site where troops and families can upload and share videos, according to an article in the Army Times.
According to the article, the new TroopTube is operated by Military OneSource, the Pentagon’s online family resource center, and can be viewed from military computer systems. That means, for example, that military members deployed to Iraq can view family videos on a government computer. All videos are subject to screening for “taste, copyright violations and national security issues,” according to the website.
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I just tried to access this through a military computer system and was denied by our network’s firewall on the grounds that it was still a streaming video site. I realize that this is an internal problem to this installation and not a problem for anyone who would read this comment, but it is also a prime example of how the left hand does not know what the right one is doing.