Scared Little Wussies Are Afraid Of Free Speech
Air Force Blocks Access to Many Blogs
"The Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read, cutting off access to just about any independent site with the word "blog" in its web address. It's the latest move in a larger struggle within the military over the value -- and hazards -- of the sites. At least one senior Air Force official calls the squeeze so "utterly stupid, it makes me want to scream."
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"A couple of years back, I fought this issue concerning the Counterterrorism Blog," one Air Force officer tells Danger Room. "An AF [Air Force] professional education course website recommended it as a great source for daily worldwide CT [counterterrorism] news. However it had been banned, because it called itself a blog. And as we all know, all blogs are bad!"
posted by nolocontendere at 8:57 PM
5 Comments:
jeez...
You just know they're trying to make sure soldiers aren't exposed to questions.
Questions like "is the military protecting the US or merely acting as the private security force of a bunch of criminal shitbags".
Actually, having been in the Air Force (booted out on an early discharge, in early 80s), I can imagine how much more difficult it must be for the COs to keep their dupes in line with the propaganda, with the internet such as it is.
Of course, I'm not taking sides with them, I'm simply pointing out that before the internet it wasn't so hard to keep the dupes dumbed-down, because access to things like left-leaning antiwar and anti-corporate media was never so easy as it is today.
Still, I would think that unless the dupes already had major doubts about their leaders, one good dose of lying propaganda dissing all such alternative views should be enough to erase minor second thoughts.
The problem, imo, isn't just the alternative blogs, it's the fact that the dupes are being treated so poorly by their leaders that doubts are unavoidable.
Interesting, nick. I'm trying hard to grasp what the average grunt thinks about his/her service, because after all the information is restricted both ways.
It's not as easy as all that. One poster gets his message out a couple of times a week.
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2818.htm#001
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