Ok, we agree that the military can block what ever they want on their network.
I dont know about ISP information in billets for sure, but i have encountered no filtering of any kind from the billets I have stayed at [including the one I am at now]. I have never heard of anyone being flitered down range, with the exception of what goes on on government networks.
Sure, a commander could be a jerk, but there are defense resources people can turn to [IGs, Area Defense, other legal or advocacy services, special investigations]. If something is blatantly unreasonable, someone will eventually agree if taken high enough.
I guess you can believe what ever you want, but again, communications units have way more important things to do then read every email, blog post, etc.
They can't and don't do that. The military has more important things to worry about, like Chinese intrusions. Not to mention, no where in the UCMJ does it mention anything about "Visiting Unauthorized Websites" on a personal [not government] computer. Unless the websites you are visiting break established law [child pornography] they cannot touch you.
I reject this argument because it is not that blogs are forbidden everywhere, just on government computers. A blogger from his or her home computer could say everything they want.
To me, it makes sense to block these sites for the sake of OPSEC. If I post on a blog saying "6 B-52s are flying into Lajes Field tomorrow" that is an OPSEC indicator that could be used, along with other information, to piece together what a mission is possibly going to entail. It may give an enemy [who also use this "internet" thing BTW] a picture into operations. Its easy enough to get information in our modern world, and the last thing they need is help from insiders, who eagerly and innocently, who want to talk about the "cool thing that happened at work today".
Any other reason doesn't make any sense to me.
Exactly. Thats why when you buy a new car, it doesn't come with iDeck or iStereo functionality; it comes iPod capable. The world is becoming designed around the iPod, or at least with the iPod in mind. Anyone that uses iTunes will always be chained [without removing DRM in some way] to an Apple related product.
Now, time to play Texas Holdem' on the iPod mini I got for Christmas...
Also, what is there to leak after a nuclear strike. Any hidden operations centers would be the main operating facilities of the US government. Most major government operations would be disrupted. Major cities would probably be targeted, there by taking out cooperate America. Not to mention that if "surviving company X" is dumping too much arsenic into the Missouri river, what does that matter when 500 miles surrounding Los Angeles is uninhabitable for the next 50 years? Why would a whistle blower need a safe refuge in such an environment? There would be no more secrets.
The_Laughing_God: There is some sort of mock-up or [otherwise inert] version of an anti-satellite weapon on display at the National Air and Space museum Dulles Airport annex. Is that what you are talking about?
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Ok, we agree that the military can block what ever they want on their network. I dont know about ISP information in billets for sure, but i have encountered no filtering of any kind from the billets I have stayed at [including the one I am at now]. I have never heard of anyone being flitered down range, with the exception of what goes on on government networks. Sure, a commander could be a jerk, but there are defense resources people can turn to [IGs, Area Defense, other legal or advocacy services, special investigations]. If something is blatantly unreasonable, someone will eventually agree if taken high enough. I guess you can believe what ever you want, but again, communications units have way more important things to do then read every email, blog post, etc.
They can't and don't do that. The military has more important things to worry about, like Chinese intrusions. Not to mention, no where in the UCMJ does it mention anything about "Visiting Unauthorized Websites" on a personal [not government] computer. Unless the websites you are visiting break established law [child pornography] they cannot touch you.
I reject this argument because it is not that blogs are forbidden everywhere, just on government computers. A blogger from his or her home computer could say everything they want.
Whats the difference from a workplace policy on official use only for computer systems? You can go home and blog all you want.
To me, it makes sense to block these sites for the sake of OPSEC. If I post on a blog saying "6 B-52s are flying into Lajes Field tomorrow" that is an OPSEC indicator that could be used, along with other information, to piece together what a mission is possibly going to entail. It may give an enemy [who also use this "internet" thing BTW] a picture into operations. Its easy enough to get information in our modern world, and the last thing they need is help from insiders, who eagerly and innocently, who want to talk about the "cool thing that happened at work today". Any other reason doesn't make any sense to me.
Exactly. Thats why when you buy a new car, it doesn't come with iDeck or iStereo functionality; it comes iPod capable. The world is becoming designed around the iPod, or at least with the iPod in mind. Anyone that uses iTunes will always be chained [without removing DRM in some way] to an Apple related product. Now, time to play Texas Holdem' on the iPod mini I got for Christmas...
Also, what is there to leak after a nuclear strike. Any hidden operations centers would be the main operating facilities of the US government. Most major government operations would be disrupted. Major cities would probably be targeted, there by taking out cooperate America. Not to mention that if "surviving company X" is dumping too much arsenic into the Missouri river, what does that matter when 500 miles surrounding Los Angeles is uninhabitable for the next 50 years? Why would a whistle blower need a safe refuge in such an environment? There would be no more secrets.
The_Laughing_God: There is some sort of mock-up or [otherwise inert] version of an anti-satellite weapon on display at the National Air and Space museum Dulles Airport annex. Is that what you are talking about?