Sep/090
An Eye on Military Bloggers
Since most of our publishers are independent bloggers, we thought you would be interested to hear about New York Times writer James Dao’s recent article on the government monitoring of military blogs. According to Dao, the Department of Defense plans to announce a new policy setting restrictions on access to social networking sites from military computers, which could potentially limit soldiers’ abilities to blog. The Department cites cybersecurity as a reason for issuing this policy.
While the Army is encouraging its personnel to blog and use other sites such as Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter in an attempt to promote interaction among enlisted soldiers and other officers, the voices behind these army blogs seem to already be somewhat censored since the Army instituted a policy requiring that bloggers register with their commanding officers and submit posts to be reviewed.
To read James Dao’s full article, “Pentagon Keeps Wary Watch as Troops Blog,” click here.
