Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Montenegro has banned officials from calling on Facebook and YouTube.

The Montenegrin authorities have banned government officials come from their jobs at social network sites Facebook and videohostinga YouTube, transmits AFP. The ban will come into force on 25 December.
With the ban the Government hopes to reduce the cost of bandwidth and reduce the load on the network.
In Montenegro, as of 2007 had been connected 40 percent of residents (a few years ago there were less than 10 per cent). The country's population of 650 thousand people. Approximately 14 thousand Montenegrin internetchikov use Facebook. The number of visitors to YouTube is not known, but is growing every year.
Montenegro - not the first country that introduces limitations for civil servants. For example, in July 2008, Polish police have been banned from social network Nasza-klasa.pl, the Russian analogue of "classmates".

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