The U.S. Strategic Command has warned it was considering a Department-wide ban on Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook. The Marine Corps issued its ban of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites in response to the Strategic Command warning.
I don’t have a problem with the Pentagon preventing soldiers and personnel from using mass social media platforms, do you? It’s bad enough when you’re trying to get some barista’s attention when she’s texting on her smartphone, let alone some gunner or artilleryman in Ramallah.
via Pentagon reviewing policy on social networking sites – CNN.com.
