{"id":76,"date":"2006-03-07T08:13:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T15:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2007-07-08T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T21:35:16","slug":"military-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Military Bans Blogs (Part IV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/politics\/wonkette\/our-boys-need-gossip-158687.php\">Wonkette gets a letter from a marine in Iraq<\/a>, complaining about the military blocking internet sites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately anonomizers don&#8217;t work out here (never have). Anyway, I had a few minutes today and thought I&#8217;d look and see what else was banned on the Marine web here. I think the results speak for themselves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wonkette &#8211;\u00a0Forbidden, this page is categorized as: Forum\/Bulletin Boards, Politics\/Opinion<\/li>\n<li>Bill O&#8217;Reilly\u00a0&#8211; OK<\/li>\n<li>Air America\u00a0&#8211; Forbidden, this page is categorized as: Internet Radio\/TV, Politics\/Opinion<\/li>\n<li>Rush Limbaugh &#8211; OK<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"caps\">ABC<\/span> News &#8220;The Note&#8221;\u00a0&#8211; OK<\/li>\n<li>Website of the Al Franken Show &#8211; Forbidden, this page is categorized as: Internet Radio\/TV, Politics\/Opinion<\/li>\n<li>G. Gordon Liddy Show &#8211; OK<\/li>\n<li>Don &amp; Mike Show &#8211; Forbidden, this page is categorized as: Profanity, Entertainment\/Recreation\/Hobbies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm. I blogged about this almost two years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=154\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=150\">here<\/a>. At the time I was working on an Air Force base in Arizona, nowhere near a combat zone. The sites I reviewed were:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Talking Points Memo &#8211; blocked<\/li>\n<li>Boing Boing &#8211; blocked<\/li>\n<li>This Modern World &#8211; blocked<\/li>\n<li>Eschaton &#8211; blocked<\/li>\n<li>Daily Kos &#8211; blocked<\/li>\n<li>The Agitator &#8211; blocked<\/li>\n<li>Kim DuToit &#8211; OK<\/li>\n<li>Daily Dish &#8211; OK<\/li>\n<li>Daily Pundit &#8211; OK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, I noted that while Molly Ivins&#8217; editorials were blocked, Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s web site came right up.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of censorship even extends to what&#8217;s displayed on military TV sets. There&#8217;s a USAF regulation that says public area TVs must be tuned to CNN. But walk into any USAF waiting area today and the TVs will probably be tuned to Fox News. I have no idea what&#8217;s going on in the other services, but I bet it&#8217;s the same.<\/p>\n<p>As Wonkette&#8217;s correspondent remarks, the results speak for themselves. This is, quite simply, political censorship. Heavy-handed and wrong, unconstitutionally so. It&#8217;s un-American, and it&#8217;s high time bloggers and the press start talking about it. Oh, by the way, my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/hashblog\/\" title=\"Link to Half-Mind Weblog\">other blog<\/a> is is one of those banned by the military. So, you see, I have a dog in this fight. But whether you blog or not, so do you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonkette gets a letter from a marine in Iraq, complaining about the military blocking internet sites: Unfortunately anonomizers don&#8217;t work out here (never have). Anyway, I had a few minutes today and thought I&#8217;d look and see what else was banned on the Marine web here. I think the results speak for themselves: Wonkette &#8211;\u00a0Forbidden, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-brother","category-military"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}