In another move against soldier’s freedom, the military has blocked access to various web 2.0 sites, including YouTube and Myspace. This move, which effectively stops soldiers from using social sites, is part of a larger campaign against troop freedom by the military. Already, the military severely limits soldier’s right to blog and write personal emails. Doesn’t this seem a little fishy to you? First, the cut off the public’s access to what is going on in the military from a soldier’s perspective. Now, soldiers can no longer find out what is going on in the world from a citizen’s perspective. In the future, I wouldn’t be surprised if all new sites (besides Fox) were banned by the military. What are they trying to hide that we can’t know what is going on for soldiers? As we continue this pointless war in Iraq, I wonder who our military is fighting - militants or the American people?
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Oh what a naive fool you are. Why in the world would the military want some 18 year emailing his girlfriend saying “hey, I am going into a fight on Wed at this location, hope to live and see you again!”
But, I guess that would never happen, right? It’s called Operational Security. You don’t announce your plans to an enemy, but I guess they didn’t teach you that in school. Second, the only reason for allowing a military person, on a military network access to a non-military site would be for Quality of Life reasons. My space and You-Tube can have stuff that is not deemed ok, i.e. nude pics and such.
As far as freedom, WTF are you thinking. These people are in the military! They can, though, keep a journal and publish anything they want, as long as they send it through approval channels. Otherwise we would have to create a new spy/communications system every day at a huge cost.
Like I said, you are to busy smoking weed and never cowboying up to join and see what it was really like. But don’t worry; you are welcome for that type of life the US Military has provided you. How about you just shut up and say thank you to the next grunt you meet, loser.
Operational Security is a perfectly acceptable statute and makes sense in any war zone. However, operational security does not mean you must block all communications. Instead, you should expect soldiers to observe operational security (just as they always have done).
If a soldier wants something such as nude pics, they are not going to YouTube. Interestingly, the sites catering exclusively to this are still not blocked.
Many commanders have announced that they will simply block all communications because it is too much work to read through it all. Is it too much let a soldier tell his family that he’s doing fine occasionally?
I think it would be wise to not make assumptions without knowing me. There is no way a 14 year old is joining the military.
I am thankful to the individual troops who have given America security time after time. That is precisely why I support their rights over those of the massive military machine.