The DoD (Department of Defense) claims the new policy is necessary to conserve bandwidth but the new policy is simply censorship effectively preventing soldiers from presenting graphic images of the war or seeing disturbing images that may upend morale.
The situation BOTH in Iraq and in Afghanistan is a lot more involved than mainstream media can fathom. And, if it could fathom what is going on, it would not be allowed to report it for obvious reasons, as this would further undermine the morale of the Western world. Troops and their families at home used to be able to at least write emails to each other via blog spots and troops were also allowed to access certain parts of the internet. This is now no longer possible.
This censorship began on or about Monday, May 14, the DoD blocked network access worldwide to the following 14 Web sites: YouTube.com, 1.fm, Pandora.com, Photobucket.com, MySpace.com, Live365.com, Hi5.com, MetaCafe.com, MTV.com, iFilm.com, BlackPlanet.com, StupidVideos.com, and FileCabi.net. Active duty personnel are no longer able to post material themselves or view what has been put online. The Defense Department ban on popular Web sites — including YouTube, MySpace, and several others — will only apply to Defense Department computers and networks, not to PCs that connect to personal ISPs through the DoD network; however, in most theaters of operation, Defense Department computers are the only ones available to service personnel.
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I’m very sensitive, i can’t see this type of things. I’ll probably puke. I mean i fainted when i saw my own blood. That’s why i couldn’t be a nurse!
they can use proxify.com to get around the blocks
so they think that not allowing themn internet they can keep them quiet….I think not!
Nice post dude…keep it up!
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Photos of dead babies always did it for me… makes me upset enough to want to hit somebody. preferably the one taking the life of the baby. what has the world become?
sigh…
Hi static. good to see ur up and about…
I can sort-of understand their stated reason for banning these sites (bandwidth issues), but I admit it does look a lot like censorship.
those pictures are absolutley foul, we know whats going on in afghanistan, surley imagery like this will not have any effect on the polititians, I personally dont see the relivance of it, and I doubt you sought the permission of the families of these casualties of war before posting them online??
war is never a good thing and not everyone always agrees on a course of action, YOU SHOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF OUR TROOPS!! As aposed to being critical of decisions way above your station, get a grip, our troops are dying for people like you who clearly have little more to do with their time than to criticise everyones efforts to keep our troops safe. “Less media attention, documentaries are usually made following a war, not during it and should be no way involved in trying to change them outcome of it. :idea: :idea: :idea:
maldito perro del mal USA
We should support our troops.
But, this is america.
We deserve the truth, not censorship!
that si sad i didnt even know it was possible to get hurt THAT bad when your just a baby
Im all for war, but no one deserves this. Its just not right, seeing an innocent child burned, because of us or the enemy who knows. its not right
yankees cabrones hijos de su putísima madre
these pictures clearly show who is the terrorist
fuck israel and fuck america,
hey bush my foot # is 11, u’ve been given 2 chances the next 1 would be ur defeat in iraq, afghanistan,and what ever u fight against muslim,,
GET DA FUCK IN FRONT OF US, DONT FUCKING BOMBED FROM SKY LIKE A COWARD,,,
AND AND AND
JACKAL NEVER COMES IN FRONT OF A LION EVER,,,,,
u fucking BULLSHIT, piss on UUUU,
is this real
oo wow
it looks like the baby died
FREE PALESTINE
FUCK ISRAEL
We Want Peace!!!
We’ll have peace with the easy way or the hard way!!!
only God knows how we gonna have it!!!!
I think the hard way is the best for the fucking Israel!!!
Fuck Israel!! Peace for Palestine!!!
ISRAEL IS BULL SHIT!!!!!!
Totally wrong.
http://www.anarchandwhy.blog.ca
omgthats scary
Remember also that the Iraqi citizens were being killed and tortured by Sadam , and by the wars fought with Iran. Iraq now has hope of taking control of their own destiny from Religious Fascism, a battle this country has been fighting for a while, since we first came here seeking escape from European Religious Domination.
The cold war of religious super powers continue and we are caught between them, namely Radical Christians and Muslims and Jews. They served their purposes in building nation states and it is time to move on. If you want pictures like these to be a thing of the past, then it is my opinion that we are going to have to find a common heart and a better way to develop our spiritual lives.
@ Gar Frederickson: Do you really think this war is good? That it’s for democracy? That it is about suicide bombers and religious fascism? Then you my friend are sadly mistaken. It’s about profiteering from the defense and oil industries. Nothing more. That is not a justified reason to kill babies.
@ Static Brain:
“Do you really think this war is good?” Not good, a necessary evil.
“That it’s for democracy?” I do not believe that war is waged FOR anything. It is to stop something, it is anti- something. Soldiers step in where politicians fail, where citizens have become complacent.
“That it is about suicide bombers and religious fascism? Then you my friend are sadly mistaken.”
Yes I definitly believe that it is about religious fascism. And I feel that I am sadly correct.
“It’s about profiteering from the defense and oil industries. Nothing more.”
If you believe that the American democracy is so easily subverted, why bother with discussion. If the American people are so stupid as to send their sons and daughters off because the capitalist conspiracy is so overwhelmingly hypnotic in its ability to blind us and move us to mindless violence, then what do you hope to achieve with such a horde of pathetic citizens? Your assertion doesn’t just assault the war, but the country that sponsors it.
“That is not a justified reason to kill babies.”
The babies are not the target, but they are the shield. Children have become a populary tool to demoralize American troops and national resolve since it was proven affective in Viet Nam. American soldiers would not normally target babies. There is no justification to target innocent civilians, whatever their age, which is the general practice of the religous fascist.
If you can find a way that will guarantee that our babies here at home will not become the target of some religous fascist cell group, and that our newspapers are not filled with pictures of our babies broken bodies – some other way than war, please lead us to this other option.
Thats a British soldier not a yank.
30.If you wanted to include the major languages, why did you leave out a Microsoft offering? There is a lot of .NET stuff out there, and it is more general language than some of the ones you included…all star shoes
guys isreal and america are the terrosrist watch the arrivals on youtube to free your mind
Israel and America are terorist. They haven’t got conscience, they sould be know that the Heaven is expensive…
ah gotta love a conspiracy, go America! (I am not American)
fuck you usa