Some U.S. Army Posts Block MilBid.com
March 25th, 2008 | by admin |Tonight an email was received from a soldier saying MilBid was blocked on the Army Fort. When asked for the reasoning we received word that the Army posts are concerned with possible pornography being on the site. To squelched any rumor of this we fell it’s necessary to get word out to everyone that there is currently nor will there ever be pornography on MilBid. This site was developed to help the units and troops and putting such material would not only disintegrate the opportunity to complete our mission but would an extremely unsound decision to make regarding the audience we hope to develop and keep.
We ask any Airman, Soldier, Sailor, Marine, or Coastie to express this concern through the chain as it completely hurts the sites objectives and we want to be seen as an asset to the military and not a threat of any kind. It was sad to receive news of this and we truly implore those making the decision to block or unblock websites for unsafe material to take a whole hearted look through our site so they can make the assessment of what we do and create here for the entire population of the world to enjoy and utilize so the military members can receive what they deserve. Anything short of unblocking or unfiltering hurts not only us but the people we are trying to serve through the service we are providing. We hope the posts will reconsider MilBid as a safe site for members to travel to in the future.
To the rest of the unblocked world we offer this as a word that we will not be offering pornography as a product on our website. We do not need to profit or entertain this type of material to earn revenue in support of those that serve. Anyone attempting to undermine this policy will be deleted completely from our system immediately.
