Lawmakers Want Gates to Provide Report on Effects of YouTube, MySpace

By Jason Sherman / June 11, 2007 at 5:00 AM
Lawmakers are concerned that a recent Defense Department policy that blocks access to popular Internet social networking Web sites -- such as YouTube and MySpace -- could have negative effects on the morale of troops deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world. The Senate Armed Services Committee, in a report accompanying its version of the Pentagon's fiscal year 2008 defense spending bill, wants Defense Secretary Robert Gates to prepare a report by Sept. 1 that supports U.S. Strategic Command's...

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