Pentagon bans American soldiers from reading UK newspaper!

Restricted web access to The Guardian is Armywide, officials say

Army Cyber Command: www.arcyber.army.mil/

The Guardian's "The NSA Files" page: www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-nsa-files.


He said it would not block "websites from the American public in general, and to do so would violate our highest-held principle of upholding and defending the Constitution and respecting civil liberties and privacy."



Edward Snowden
You are a HERO!!

Watch out though for your life and guard yourself from American assassins and may you have a long healthy life in your new country wherever that may be.

You will be remembered in history as being one of the few who stand on the right side of history against their governments.

 

I know it sounds funny but in Greek army you are not allowed to read any newspaper

There is nothing more annoying than having to click 4 times and add a proxy to your firefox.

 

This is pathetic. Just how paranoid and stupid are these Pentagon morons? (Rhetorical)

 

On a scale of three-and-a-half to two ?

 

You have to wonder which crew-cut genius dreamt-up this absurdity; not only is it stupid (soldiers can buy newspapers, and I'm pretty sure they can access the web via their phones etc), but isn't there something vaguely unconstitutional about this-like the freedom of speech thing?

 

That is news? Lol. When I joined the most worlds powerful military and it was way back when, I was fully advised when I sign my name on the dotted line a lot of my constitutional rights were temporally suspended. No sweat. What did worry me was my MOS which was PsyOps, it was an MOS that was forced upon me because I was color blind unbeknownst to me. I was shocked when learning about modern nations capabilities in snooping and what’s known as black ops of all types. I was especially shocked by the methods the USA army and what’s called NSA could do, and my below top secret clearance only allowed me unclassified veiws.

But this story is fluff. Today its web sites newspapers etc being banned, back in the day of tiger stripes cammo I was forced to remove my large poster of the president sitting on the (*)(*)(*)(*)ter smoking a blunt~ So IMO, today’s restricted computer access and denying some reading material material
isn’t a sin and isn’t so bad. Hustler was banned, even Playboy and penthouse was a no no in our housing units too! Just in basic tho'.


Reva

 

I suppose that the military will fill in the Guardian hours they've been deprived of with Disney.

Maybe Disney will be mandatory.

 

This isn't really a big deal. The Military has traditionally blocked certain sites from it's NIPRNET, just like most companies block sites from access to their company Intranet.

 

I wish I had access to that list of blocked websites. I think I would add them all to my firewall to restrict access, and to my web browser's list of restricted sites that might damage my computer.

 

It's demoralizing the men,
if they know peeping tom is feasting on their wives and
girlfriends back home.

 

Which constitution would that be? There are so many, these days.

 

Not just the gummint doing this - http://www.smh.com.au/comment/not-just-one-way-to-silence-dissent-20130629-2p3pc.html

 

The one they use for toilet paper in the White House executive bathroom.

 

Someone has the right idea then. An old fashioned, out of date, relic of the past is being used for what it's worth in the modern age where the USA is the instigator of advancement in one direction and reverse in the other.

 

So you don't think they have the right to know what the government is doing to their own families ? You don't think they have a right to know how crooked their boss is? Shouldn't they know what the country is doing so they could be proud of the country they are fighting for. Isn't that the real point? They don't want the soldiers to know how their government is treating the people that they are giving their lives to protect.

 

There are plenty of places to get the story. The Guardian isn't the only paper reporting it.

 

So why ban it?

 

This is the military's reason. You can accept it or not, but ultimately, they own the network, and just like any company that restricts website access (which is virtually all of them), it's their access; their rules:

Sources at the Presidio said Jose Campos, the post's information assurance security officer, sent an email to employees early Thursday saying The Guardian's website was blocked by Army Cyber Command "in order to prevent an unauthorized disclosure of classified information." NETCOM is a subordinate to the Army Cyber Command, based in Fort Belvoir, Va., said its website.

Campos wrote if an employee accidentally downloaded classified information, it would result in "labor intensive" work, such as the wipe or destruction of the computer's hard drive.

He wrote that an employee who downloads classified information could face disciplinary action if found to have knowingly downloaded the material on an unclassified computer.

The Guardian's website has classified documents about the NSA's program of monitoring phone records of Verizon customers, a project called Prism which gave the agency "direct access" to data held by Google, Facebook, Apple and others, and more.

 

I am just glad the chics over at honesthousewives.com didn't mind being honest about it; i mean, who can complain about chics being moral enough to bear true witness.

 

The demeaning comments targeting the USA government abusing our constitution are correct enough. Some ‘components’ of the USA government are far more guilty than others in selling the people out. Examples of the worst are ‘globalists’ and those that value money more than lives. Liberals are adding to the problem but conservatives are just as guilty, the entire two (not three in reality) party system is just one big rotten system with no real diversity in most truly important matters. . Add the liberal Ginsburg making instead of interpreting law to the destructive mess and you have a USA that is not the USA, its more like the old USSR.

That’s all I have to say about that except for bend over and kiss your dwindling freedoms and way of life goodbye, and or move to North Korea or cuba where you will at least Know the government is rotten. Don’t get me wrong. I love my nation, even the leaders and its vision before it began changing. Today I still love the people and how our nation could be, and that is spelled out in the constitution and bill of rights, and not in the love of money ie GREED.


reva

 

As only a military mind could describe it ""network hygiene" lol

 

They need not have worried.

How many do you see reading it, in reality?

 

Your right they can find Obama's lies everywhere.

 

if this was a corporation they would say it's not the employees network, the employer can block what they want

they can still visit these site from private networks if they choose too

 

The rumor Los are already starting. People are starting to say he may be dead. That's why there is no sign if him.