Milblogs Under Fire

Never had any interest to read “milblogs” or blogs by military personnel, but there have been a few articles about the monitoring and censorship of these blogs. This Wired article gives a good background of the issues involved and some of the ensuing confusion about what is bloggable and what isn’t.

The article also points out one of the primary issues driving this problem:

…the current flap is partly the result of a generation gap between younger, tech-savvy recruits for whom life online is second nature and older, more senior military officials who don’t get the net and are accustomed to the military’s long-established history of carefully monitoring release of information from the battlefield.

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