Army Monitors Soldiers' Blogs, Web Sites

much like the old propaganda of "loose lips sink ships", such new methods of communication should be shunned because "loose bytes seize sites"

That, and many of them were actually telling the truth about what was going on, not the Pentagon's version. I've seen a lot of front-line/combat footage filmed by US troops and it's not pretty; and that's not what the Pentagon, or the neocon holdouts, wants the people backing home seeing and reading. You could even call it damage control, if you like.

There's nothing wrong with blogging about military experience. However, posting about whereabouts, specific places you've been, writing about classified weapons etc, is not freedom of speech-you're under the military code of justice. Also, you're undermining the lives of your fellow comrades. Who cares about what CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR and so forth think, this is not something that soldiers should be posting. I don't need to know, especially as the war goes on.

I know a few people in the Canadian Military that spent time (or are spending time now) in Afganistan, and a couple blog about it now and then, nothing comprimising of activity or location or anything that might be bad to let out into the public...and they've been removed and restarted a few times due to attempts of censorship from superiors. For the strangest stuff too, like stories of going shopping for stuff and the weird things they found, or other things not at all military related. They haven't even TRIED actually bloging about anything too interesting because they know it'll just be removed and get them in serious trouble....strange stuff indeed.