Well, since I was in the army, served in a war and now vlog, I guess I can chime in with my 2 cents.....
It is my understanding that the Army blocked YT, Myspace and a few others on their networks, the reason being the use of bandwith and the potential for virus attacks...again this was on the military network, no different than my work blocking YT, myspace, facebook etc....I mean they do pay me to work not visit the yahoo group.. :-) I am sure some of it is concern that someone may let something slip that is classified, or that something may be shown etc....and to be honest I can not blame them....they are in combat....and there are very real security issues at stake..... So the military is making a site avaiable...who knows how it will work out, it may be crap, but if a soldier has access to some public internet, he could always use that to post videos, and they are still allowing them to use the military IP to post blogs, so I am inclined to believe that it was just a bandwith and security issue...... Let's just see before we go all "postal" on the military.... And to all those that are serving or have family serving....Thank you.... Heath A proud Vet --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Adam Quirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are more than 2, and they all seem to be of the "life shure is swell" > demeanor http://www.trooptube.tv/videos/featured > > I didn't know that Youtube was blocked by military IPs. That must be a very > recent thing, because there are a ton of uploaded videos on there from our > troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. > > You can't make this out very well without logging in and friending her, but > in my cousin's facebook profile picture, she wrote the words "I Hate Iraq" > in the sand with her boot. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php? id=47211212 > > That's the sort of thing that probably wouldn't fly on Trooptube. > > *Adam Quirk* / Wreck & Salvage <http://wreckandsalvage.com> / > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / +1 551.208.4644 (m) / imbullemhead (aim) > > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It's actually not that bad. > > > In a lot of places, when accessing the web from a .mil IP address sites > > are > > > blocked (particularly consistently stateside). YouTube is one of the ones > > > blocked. ( > > > > > http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/11/trooptube-restores-streaming- video-to-our-nations-finest/ > > ) > > > So, if you think about it, trooptube is pretty cool - every soldier has > > > access to a public vid sharing site that is probably going to be visited > > by > > > a higher density of users who care about/ can relate to what they're > > > posting. It will likely help cut back on the youtube comments which lend > > > themselves more to douchebaggery than to constructive support. > > > I have to give it a thumbs up. > > > > Interesting that we have 2 widely different views here. > > obviously, the proof will be what is actually posted in the month. > > So far there are 2 videos. > > > > Will it be simply "the army is great!"...or will there be > > conversation, constructive criticism, and crazy antics that soldiers > > like to record of themselves. > > > > jay > > > > > > -- > > http://jaydedman.com > > 917 371 6790 > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
