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Admittedly O.T., but I don't care: I'm up to here with "freedom".  I want responsibility.  Problem is, "responsibility" is so yesterday.  So un-hip.  So pre-MySpace-and-YouTube.  I like the "brand promise" of responsibility better than freedom.  It's addresses a more stable and sustainable market.   

The Defense Department is just saying no to clogging its net and squandering bandwidth on social-network websites. So YouTube's and MySpace's revenues might take a hit?   So flippin' what?  So let Google absorb it.  Something tells me it probably can.

Hello? Last time I read the headlines we were at war, folks.  Against cynical, manipulative, murdererous reptiles who must constantly marvel at America's eagerness to play into their hands by wringing our own, courtesy of ACLU Nation and the guardians of "free" speech.  As if speech was ever free!  If our troops have to forego the convenience and comfort of social websites, it seems a pretty modest price to pay to augment their physical security doesn't it?  The real problem, however, isn't MySpace, YouTube, the Internet Age, or anything technological, or ideological.  It's the gross failure of the Commander-in-Chief, early on, to be forthright and candid about the sacrifices inherent, at home, during wartime.  To him, we and our troops could make war and live a high-old-peacetime-life at the same time.  Blogging and emailing to our heart's content.   I don't think so.  Now we all know so.