February 28, 2008 /

The Air Force Blocks Access To Blogs

Because our soldiers shouldn’t be trusted to make decisions on what they read, their superiors will: 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 […]

Because our soldiers shouldn’t be trusted to make decisions on what they read, their superiors will:

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.”

Until recently, each major command of the Air Force had some control over what sites their troops could visit, the Air Force Times reports. Then the Air Force Network Operations Center, under the service’s new “Cyber Command,” took over.

This is the military George Bush has built – a military Stalin would be proud of!

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