Comments on: Pentagon Sued Over Milblog-Monitoring

By: RTO Trainer

RTO Trainer — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:59:56 +0000

Well.
As an individiual woiht a blog who has been contacted by the program I can’t find anything offensive about it.
I wasn’t ordered to do anything. I simply received an e-mail that said, we noticed you posted X and that might not be such a good idea if you think about it.
I thought about it and adjusted fire.
As for monitoring… so what? We chose to put our ramblings out there in public in order for people to see it. I can divine no expectation of privacy here. And we, as Soldiers Sailors, Marines and Airmen, have (lightly) proscribed 1st amendment rights in otehr media.
Finally, the DoD had a duty to protect its members and to assess risk to us. So… I can find no foul here.
I stronly suspect that the “monitoring” is no more than subscribing to RSS feeds and occassional visits to sites that don’t have them.

By: SPC Hill

SPC Hill — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:10:36 +0000

I think that the pentagon has every right in the world to censor websites in regards to our mission. We have censored for as long as we have been a country and need to continue. If we are allowed to post secrets we will ensure the failure of our overall mission which it the protection of this great nation.

By: snyper42

snyper42 — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:39:16 +0000

I still have letters that my Pop sent to my Mom during WWII. Some have little rectangles cut out of them. I’m sure some of the excisions were silly, but there was “…A WAR ON…”.
If anyone asserts that the internet is secure, then I’d like to show them this bridge for sale.
I think that there are some young and hungry attorneys hoping to make a lucrative Rep for themselves.

By: JHays

JHays — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:37:46 +0000

It certain looks like big brother is hard at work here. Can’t blame them for being paranoid as GWB is requesting over 600 billions for the military so that his buddies in this military and industrial complex would be well paid and looked after at the expense of us — the taxpayers. Well I think this administration ought to talk nicely to the Chinese, the Japanese and the rest of the world such that we could borrow more than what we can ever hope to repay them. It’s hard to believe this administration would mortgage our children’s future to finance his stupid way of life.

By: Kathryn Cramer

Kathryn Cramer — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:15:18 +0000

Interesting post. The EFF is right to try to get some transparency here. Were there data available on the Pentagon’s use of this monitoring, I expect that it would follow the same kind of pattern as the military’s use of Smart Filter: arbitrary with a strong ideological bias.