The U.S. government is considering ending troop access to all forms of social networking. Via Wired:

"It’s the latest twist in the Defense Department’s tangled relationship with so-called “Web 2.0″ sites. But while earlier social media blockades have been thrown up over bandwidth and secrecy concerns, this fresh ban stems from fears that Facebook and the like make it far too easy for hackers and cybercrooks to gain access to the military’s networks."
This doesn’t come as too much of a surprise to me. When resources run thin it seems like outright censorship is usually the easiest solution. Wide nets catch the good and the bad. Actually, I’m pleasantly surprised they hadn’t done this earlier, given that Myspace was already in the picture at the Iraq War’s beginning. What do you think? Is speech being stifled here? Or do loose lips really sink ships?

The United States government is considering to once and for all ending troopt access to all forms of social networking. Via Wired:

"It’s the latest twist in the Defense Department’s tangled relationship with so-called “Web 2.0″ sites. But while earlier social media blockades have been thrown up over bandwidth and secrecy concerns, this fresh ban stems from fears that Facebook and the like make it far too easy for hackers and cybercrooks to gain access to the military’s networks."

This doesn’t come as too much of a surprise to me. When resources run thin it seems like outright censorship is usually the easiest solution. Wide nets catch everything, the good in the band. Actually, I’m sort of pleasantly surprised they hadn’t done this earlier, given that Myspace was already in the picture at the Iraq War’s beginning. What do you think? Is speech being stifled here? Or do loose lips really sink ships?