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Military Steps Up War On Blogs

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-post-don't-read dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:PressedWords by Critical+Facilities · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Presumably he didn't post that on his blog...
    Don't be so sure. From FTA:

    Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, who replaced Petraeus as the head of the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth, recently wrote (in a blog post, no less)
  2. Disobedience by chuckymonkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You know, I spent two years in Iraq and we never had to do this. During the second tour they tried, but there was a simple fix for all of us. We bought a satellite dish and a year's subscription to the internet from a company in Italy. Divided among 30 people it wasn't very expensive at all. The leadership tried to get in on it so they could censor, but a few "anonymous" whispers to embedded media later and they left us the fuck alone. Damn the leadership hated me.

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