Air Force bans blogs. More accurately, the Air Force is blocking all sites that have the word “blog” in their URL.
AFNOC has imposed bans on all sites with “blog” in their URLs, thus cutting off any sites hosted by Blogspot. Other blogs, and sites in general, are blocked based on content reviews performed at the base, command and AFNOC level…
The idea isn’t to keep airmen in the dark – they can still access news sources that are “primary, official-use sources,” said Maj. Henry Schott, A5 for Air Force Network Operations. “Basically … if it’s a place like The New York Times, an established, reputable media outlet, then it’s fairly cut and dry that that’s a good source, an authorized source,” he said…
Good to know that our boys in blue over in Iraq aren’t getting their news from me!
And in case you thought it was just the US military … the Canadian armed forces are being warned about al-Qa’eda spies on Facebook.
“This may seem overdramatic,” the advisory reads. But “the information can be used to target members for further exploitation. It also opens the door for your families and friends to become potential targets as well.”
[..] Brig. Gen. Peter Atkinson says “80 percent” of enemy “battle damage assessment[s]” are from online sources like Facebook.
Yeah, but think of all the bad graphics and music they have to go through to get it!
Man those nuclear missles!!!(but stay away from blogs!)