On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:21 AM, David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm missing why they couldn't just use youtube ...? > Whatever - cool that such a traditional arm of gov is starting to thaw a > bit!
if you read the post, sounds like they want more control over what military people post. Women of CVN76, 'That Don't Impress Me Much' was the work of an unnamed > airman and included, "fleeting shots of the door to the ship's nuclear power > plant and of a Sailor dancing while wearing a full-body radiation suit". > But the US Army has gone the other way, actively encouraging personnel to > create their own videos for posting not on YouTube, but on TroopTube, a > military movie site from Military OneSource. > So they will ask Yotube et al to take down all videos made by soldiers, then say "but hey, put them on Trooptube!" Im sure Trooptube will not allow anonymous posters, so you can assured that all videos will be harmless and uncritical. Probably wont be encouraging of an open conversation. we'll see. Plenty of the stuff Ive seen posted by soldiers are dead people and the crazy stuff you see in war. (NOT SAFE FOR WORK http://mindprod.com/politics/iraqwarpix.html) DONT click here if you are squeamish. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
