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Airman says Air Force Web ban hurts military

MasterSergeant — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:27:15 PST

This is bullshit. I can tell you that this young Airman who is whinning about his ability to access "youtube" instructional videos is simply doing that... whinning. There is no job in the Air Force that requires anyone to watch youtube vids or any other site blocked from the base's servers. Should any intelligence section need access to the entire WWW they get it. It's nothing for the IT freaks to just make it happen! This kid is probebly sitting around killing time and is pissy that he can't get to his daily dose of blogerific porn. He cries about a moral crushing policy - Are you freaking kidding me when your uniformed brothers are in Iraq? Get on your own computer after work and get over it... and get back to work Airman.

MasterSergeant

Airman says Air Force Web ban hurts military

pseudonym — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:43:55 PST

Some time ago, I noticed that whenever I posted pictures of nude or semi-nude women, linked to "sexy" commercials or to anything racy from the "subservient chicken" family, the traffic to my blog would explode from places with military bases. In fact, it was so obvious and overwhelming that one time, I used the appropriate tag and while I had them there, I suggested that perhaps they could use the Google: Translate workaround.

pseudonym

Airman says Air Force Web ban hurts military

jeffabc — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:09:17 PST

welcome to the wonderful world of Websense

jeffabc

Airman says Air Force Web ban hurts military

SwatLax — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:11:06 PST

@sample032: Thanks for that. It brigns back fond memories of middle school Latin.

High school Latin sucked, though, because the school was phasing out the Latin program...

SwatLax

Airman says Air Force Web ban hurts military

matto — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:47:35 PST

Only terrorists use the internet.

matto

Airman says Air Force Web ban hurts military

sample032 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:22:59 PST

"[My real concern is] that the ban may actually hurt our ability to fight. Foreign-language skills are vitally needed. Some of the best instructional clips are on YouTube. But Air Force personnel can't view them."

This brings us to today's YouTube Latin lesson:

sample032