Comments on: Pentagon Bans Army Milblogs! http://www.blogworld.com/2007/05/03/pentagon-bans-army-milblogs/ Official News Blog of the World's Largest Social Media Conference & Tradeshow Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:39:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James Greenidge http://www.blogworld.com/2007/05/03/pentagon-bans-army-milblogs/comment-page-1/#comment-3398 James Greenidge Thu, 03 May 2007 10:43:32 +0000 http://blog.blogworldexpo.com/2007/05/03/pentagon-bans-army-milblogs/#comment-3398 I'd very much like to know who/what pressured the Services into taking this milblog crackdown action. The general news I get from Milblogs is that though the situation's rough sledding in Iraq and Afghanistan it's not Chicken Little time over there, like some parties would very very much want us all to believe. James Greenidge Queens, NY I’d very much like to know who/what pressured the Services into taking this milblog crackdown action. The general news I get from Milblogs is that though the situation’s rough sledding in Iraq and Afghanistan it’s not Chicken Little time over there, like some parties would very very much want us all to believe.

James Greenidge
Queens, NY

]]> By: Jarret http://www.blogworld.com/2007/05/03/pentagon-bans-army-milblogs/comment-page-1/#comment-3369 Jarret Thu, 03 May 2007 02:06:24 +0000 http://blog.blogworldexpo.com/2007/05/03/pentagon-bans-army-milblogs/#comment-3369 "...soldiers should be given the right to tell the world..." We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all bloggers are created equal? Don't we already have the right to tell the world? There is something very sinister about this decision by the Pentagon - more to the story than just a ban on milblogs. Either way it is utterly unacceptable from a Constitutional level and from a PR level. Blogs are the military's best and brightest PR machine. “…soldiers should be given the right to tell the world…” We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all bloggers are created equal?
Don’t we already have the right to tell the world?

There is something very sinister about this decision by the Pentagon – more to the story than just a ban on milblogs.

Either way it is utterly unacceptable from a Constitutional level and from a PR level. Blogs are the military’s best and brightest PR machine.

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