US Army - Social Medias : TroopTube... Controling after Banning

Like, the daily source of my inspiration, the great Cyrille (yeaaaah... I got to be a bit flattering as the annual wage incentives are at the door^^) I decided a few months ago to give an international dimension to this blog.

Of course, I could have done it by having a pretty little google translation widget on my sidebar, but the only word that comes in mind when thinking about this kind of tools i's : bullsh*t...

So before publishing three really long and boring studies in English about influence, Web 2.0 and cognitive warfare, that I prepared during the summer, let's begin this new post series with a brand new social media brought to you by the US Army: TroopTube

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You must remember that, back in may 2007, General BB Bell (commander of the US occupation army forces in Korea) reported the upcoming blocks of several websites, including Photobucket, Myspace and Youtube.

Is it just possible to think about the really stupid fallacious argument of the DoD at that time without rolling on the floor laughing...

"Recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network and bandwidth availability"

At that time (when I was working on a personal case study which was aimed at analyzing the phenomenon of milblogs and trying to understand the issues behind this fast growing category of blogs and the monitoring process of the DoD... ) a video attracted my attention as I began reading the huge number of critics comments that this Scottish guy generated by dealing with the US Army...



Why am I telling you all this? Simply because the DoD reached yesterday the nexstep of its strategy, built to monitor those milblogs! How? By creating his own social media, and of course with a group of Pentagon employees who will screen each one to prevent copyright violations and... national security issues.

Will this platform be used by the Pentagon as one more a tool of propaganda? Noooooo! Of course, there's already a "message to the troops" posted by... General Petraeus (which is already the most viewed video of the platform). But nothing to do with this ^^

Just click to visit TroopTube, and see whether we have a new Youtube killer here...

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