Military Steps Up War On Blogs

An anonymous reader writes "The military's war on blogs, first reported last spring, is picking up. Now the Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read. One senior Air Force official calls the squeeze so 'utterly stupid, it makes me want to scream.'"

Comments

China?

[Kev647]

Does this remind anyone of China a little bit? It is somewhat different, but overall, blocking blogs and websites? Whats next? Making it illegal to discuss the things on these blogs too? What about our firs amendment? What about our freedom? The freedom of the troops? Did they sign anywhere that they would waive their rights? Did we?

Apropos of a police state:

[copponex]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/28/prison.population.ap/index.html

If you're an American adult, there's a 1% chance you're currently in jail. If you're a black male between the ages of 20 and 34, there's an 11% chance you're currently in jail.

As the article notes, that's more prisoners per capita than Russia or China.

Security Please

[db32]

Christ I can't believe you people. Bitch and moan about insecure this or insecure that and when the military tries to secure their network people cry foul. For fucks sake it is a military network, people shouldn't be surfing the web to random places not needed for official business. They can go home and surf wherever they want, they just can't do it using governmetn assets. I mean what the hell, lets all get together and cry the government wastes our tax dollars, and then when they do something that would stop that (people wasting time and bandwidth) we all get together and cry louder. This is such bullshit and just another dumb excuse to cry about the military.