Earlier this week, members of the Defense Department announced that—effective as of Monday—soldiers stationed overseas would no longer be allowed to access YouTube or MySpace, citing concerns about bandwith as the primary reason for the new digital restrictions.

Now, YouTube is fighting back against what they perceive to be a miscarriage of justice.

YouTube's cofounders Thursday challenged the Pentagon's assertion that soldiers overseas were sapping too much bandwidth by watching online videos, the military's principal rationale for blocking popular Web sites from Defense Department computers. "They said it might be a bandwidth issue, but they created the Internet, so I don't know what the problem is," Chief Executive Chad Hurley said.

While no one's gone so far as to call this a government conspiracy, YouTube has suggested just enough impropriety to call "bullshit." And we're just glad to be living in a country where people are willing to challenge questionable statements, invoke their First Amendment rights and stand up for what they believe in.

Even if "what they believe in" is off-duty cops accidentally shooting themselves in the leg and overweight boys fighting with broomsticks light sabres.

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