Last week’s brief-lived excitement about “censorship” of YouTube, MySpace, and other popular websites from military networks generated lots of comments about the expense and shortage of satellite bandwidth, yet few hard, fast facts.
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Who, you might ask, is Brigadier General Gerardo Jose Colmenares Gomez, and why should you care? He turns out, in point of fact, to be a fairly high-ranking member of the Venezuelan army - and the military attache at their embassy in Washington, D.C.
So, that’s who he is, but doesn’t answer why you should care.
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