Wasn't this announced on the news already? That because the infrastructure in Japan was hit (no highly publicized) but still working, that the US military also said they were blocking u-tube and other high bandwidth sites in order to conserve resources?
I am definitely not one to be outside of hearing about a conspiracy theory or something, but I know up in our neck of the woods in the NorthWest of NorthWest Washington State, that this is just common sense to do. On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: > On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:22 PM, William Warren wrote: >> As a former Military Member I can tell you we don't have unlimited amounts >> of bandwidth...especially overseas. There's been several undersea cables >> damaged or completely knocked offline. I don't find this policy very >> surprising due to the disaster in Japan. > > Could this also be part of a "communications blackout" ? No, not in a > sinister, government keeping secrets, manner. A friend of mine serves on a > ship that's over there right now. He dropped me a note last night that they > were going into a communications blackout to try and control some of the wild > miscommunication being sent out. > > It seems reasonable enough if only to prevent widespread panic from someone > "close" to the situation saying something incorrect. > > > --------------------------- > Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold > xenoph...@godshell.com > --------------------------- > "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." > - Niven's Inverse of Clarke's Third Law > > > >
