"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Because we can’t be trusted to run our own lives
We support freedom of speech . . . as long as you don’t listen! On the job I access the internet through a military network (I’m a civilian contractor on a U.S. Air Force base). The military has always used filters to deny access to web sites containing pornography, hate speech, or games, but lately […]
Earlier, I blogged about a US military ban on camera cell phones and a rumor that the defense department was trying to stop our troops in Iraq from contacting the outside world. According to Boing Boing, it looks like I’m on to something. Take away their e-mail and internet access. Take away their digital cameras […]
So yesterday – like what, a week and a half after Major General Taguba’s report on prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq became widely available over the Internet? – the Office of the Secretary of Defense puts out a DoD-wide urgent bulletin telling military and DoD personnel they can’t access or read it because it’s […]
I should explain that I work on a US Air Force base and access the net through the base network. The following weblogs are inaccessible: – Talking Points Memo – Boing Boing – This Modern World – Eschaton – Daily Kos – The Agitator But I can still access the following: – Kim DuToit – […]
The USAF sent me (and everyone else) a memo today. Camera cell phones are forbidden inside USAF facilities. Talk about trying to sweep the beach . . . by this time next year every cell phone in the world will have a built-in camera, and everyone will have one. What the hell are they gonna […]