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Pentagon launches TroopTube, its own YouTube
AFP - Thursday, November 13
WASHINGTON (AFP) - - More than a year after banning US soldiers from using YouTube, the Pentagon has launched TroopTube, its own video-sharing site.
"TroopTube is the new online video site designed to help military families connect and keep in touch while miles apart," TroopTube said in a statement on its homepage at Trooptube.tv.
It said the site was meant for use by "Active Duty, Guard, Reserve and their families" -- an estimated four million people.
Videos on TroopTube can be viewed by any visitor but registration is required to upload material to the site.
One of the videos on the homepage is a tribute to the troops from General David Petraeus, the new commander of Central Command, for their "tremendous work" in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
TroopTube was created in partnership with a Seattle, Washington-based startup, Delve Networks, and Marion, Montgomery, Inc., a marketing and interactive agency.
In May 2007, the Pentagon banned US servicemen using Department of Defense computer systems from using YouTube, MySpace and 10 other social-networking websites.
It said the ban was intended to prevent military Internet connections from being clogged with uploads or downloads of data-rich files such as video clips.
The move was also meant to guard against infiltration by malicious or spying software hidden in files by hackers.
Until the ban, US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan had been using YouTube and social networks to share videos, images or stories about their daily lives.
US soldiers are still allowed to write online journals, or "milblogs," using Department of Defense networks as long as they adhere to requirements not to reveal information that could jeopardize missions.
MySpace, YouTube and the other websites were targeted for restriction after a usage study showed they were the most visited websites by soldiers, according to the Pentagon.
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