DoD Paper Proposes National Security Through a Culture of Restraint (and Stigma)

decora writes "An SAIC analyst has written a paper [PDF] calling for the 'stigmatization' of the 'unattractive' types who tend to discuss government secrets in public. The plan, described in the Naval Postgraduate School Homeland Security Affairs journal, is to promote self-censorship as a 'civic duty'. Who needs to censor themselves? Amateur enthusiasts who describe satellite orbits, scientists who describe threats to the food supply, graduate students mapping the internet, the Government Accountability Office, which publishes failure reports on the TSA, the US Geologic Survey, which publishes surface water information, newspapers (the New York Times), TV shows, journalism websites, anti-secrecy websites, and even security author Bruce Schneier, to name a few."

Comments

Sounds rather un-american

[similar_name]

self-censorship as a 'civic duty'

I'm speechless.

Re:Sounds rather un-american

[guibaby]

Yes,

But do you feel a duty to remain speechless?

Re:Sounds rather un-american

[Darinbob]

I couldn't say.