Soldiers Must Clear All Blog Entries and Personal Emails Through Military Censors
May 3rd, 2007I don’t see anything about restrictions on the hordes of .mil PSYOP trolls who show up to spread bullshit in comments…
Hmm.
Via: Wired:
The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops’ online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.
Military officials have been wrestling for years with how to handle troops who publish blogs. Officers have weighed the need for wartime discretion against the opportunities for the public to personally connect with some of the most effective advocates for the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq — the troops themselves. The secret-keepers have generally won the argument, and the once-permissive atmosphere has slowly grown more tightly regulated. Soldier-bloggers have dropped offline as a result.
The new rules (.pdf) obtained by Wired News require a commander be consulted before every blog update.
SOLDIERS ADMIT: ‘IRAQ WAR IS LOST’
Gee whiz, I wonder why they could be locking down soldiers’ blogging? Can anyone help me figure this out?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070503&articleId=5556
“The war is lost. That’s the message coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan by those sent to fight it.”
“For reasons that are not yet clear, America’s general officer corps underestimated the strength of the enemy, overestimated the capabilities of Iraq’s government and security forces, and failed to provide the US Congress with an accurate assessment of security conditions in Iraq.”
A simple method to defeat the Pentagon/DOD/CIA/NSA/Echelon/TIA spying on your sell phone by building your own poor-man’s faraday cage.
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/03/18409234.php
Please translate and distribute into as many languages as possible.
No wonder I haven’t heard from my nephew the soldier in two months since he got let out of Iraq and given a break in Germany.
America, America – the land of the free!!!!!!!