21 August 2006

New Military Blogging Policy

The U.S. military has a new policy on blogs by people affiliated with it:

PERSONAL BLOGS (I.E., THOSE NOT HAVING DOD SPONSORSHIP AND PURPOSE) MAY NOT BE CREATED/MAINTAINED DURING NORMAL DUTY HOURS AND MAY NOT CONTAIN INFORMATION ON MILITARY ACTIVITIES THAT IS NOT AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. SUCH INFORMATION INCLUDES COMMENTS ON DAILY MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OPERATIONS, UNIT MORALE, RESULTS OF OPERATIONS, STATUS OF EQUIPMENT, AND OTHER INFORMATION THAT MAY BE BENEFICIAL TO ADVERSARIES.


Hey, capitalization may not be their thing, but, at least, they didn't feel the need to put "blogs" in scare quotes. They want to keep secrets, they are, at least, hip secret keepers. As a member of the general public, I assume that it doesn't apply directly to me.

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