MySpace Off Limits

[GreatAmerican]

<p>Published in the Washington Compost:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051702177.html?hpid=sec-tech[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051702177.html?hpid=sec-tech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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In a room where reporters are regularly briefed about military victories and setbacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, the discussion yesterday afternoon focused on megabits, uploads and the bandwidth constraints created by music downloads and streaming video.</p>

<p>The Defense Department, which announced Monday that it was blocking access on its networks to such popular Web sites as MySpace and YouTube, put a technology official under the spotlight to explain why bandwidth – the available space on a computer network for transferring data – is something that the military cannot afford to compromise…

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