I know, you've heard from me before...

[angelak]

This article somehow makes me depressed, but it is not surprising.
Blarhg on the Army.

This is pretty much their tactics on everything. Let the media spread the fake message and the real people and soldiers behind it are commanded to keep their true feelings to themselves. Cause if they don't, they'll get court martial'ed.

I understand need for disgression... but this is just annoying to me.
Read here:

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/army_bloggers

-Angela

Comments

[tzaddi-93.livejournal.com]

Wait just a goddamned minute! The article says that civilian employees of the military and civilian family members of soldiers are also bound by this regulation.

While I will agree that the army has the right to terminate the employment or contracts with civilian employees and vendors for behavior they deem inappropriate, what gives them the right to govern the private or public communication of soldier's family members? They are not subject to the UCMJ--they didn't enlist!

My thoughts

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. All the sudden I was like, "well, thank gods Jim isn't my husband, but even then I didn't swear to anyone on an oath to keep my mouth shut about anything, what about my freedom of speech?"

Soldiers resign their rights.
Their families???
No...?
No.

-Angela

Re: My thoughts

[seattleotaku.livejournal.com]

I heard about it on NPR a few days ago as well. Ironically while the rules would affect civilians, they weren't able to read them as they had been posted on a protected network.

What "gives them the right" is probably where the "sensitive" information they're trying to block came from. While the eventual poster/publisher was not subject to the UCMJ, the person who provided it would have been.

Re: My thoughts

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

I guess as I see it, the plight of keeping humans from discussing ANYTHING that was so major in their lives is kind of like... trying to keep water in a strainer. It just isn't going to happen 100% no matter how much net regulations you have - because if it isn't in one medium, it'll come out in another.

Just a random thought I had.

-Angela

Re: My thoughts

[seattleotaku.livejournal.com]

If it works out to be about ANYTHING, I agree. There's no way to stamp out all of it.

Here's the NPR version, by the way. I was just adding to the idea of NON-military personnel being affected by the rules... that they didn't have access to until they were "leaked". Ironic.