Marine Corps Places Ban on Facebook, Twitter

[Kaiser_25]

More old news...the Navy has had myspace/hotmail/facebook blocked for like 3 years now...sucked pretty bad out in the middle of the ocean...and suddenly no more my space!

 

[Guest]

All military censorship these days is aimed at whistle-blowers, they couldn't care less about anything else. They don't want people twittering stuff like:

"Massive war-crimes in progress, Blackwater contractors are involved in a massacre of unarmed civilians"

More on the people behind our privatizing of the armed services here:

http/www.uruknet.info/?p=m56654&hd=&size=1&l=e

 

[okibrian]

[citation][nom]downer88[/nom]I don't see how censoring the internet is more important than morale.[/citation]
The mission always comes first. We made due without twitting or tweetering or what ever the hell you call it for thousands of years, so I'm sure we can make due without this twit shit now. You want to boost morale, call you family back home and say hi. Get out from behind your PC and have fun in the real world. Go surf porn! I don't really care, but don't give me this bull shit that this is needed to boost morale and is in any way mission critical. Your M16, bullets, boots and water are mission critical. Freak'n cry babies. I've servered the Marines and have the tatts to prove it. I'm sick of this MySpace, Twitter, and FaceBook CRAP!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]downer88[/nom]I don't see how censoring the internet is more important than morale.[/citation]
Morale is a luxury that doesn't generate profit for anyone. Censoring generates profit. The warmashine is, like any other business, there to generate profit.

Morale only applies to private entities, and these aren't taught what it is.

 

[Guest]

These social sites are a joke for a real life replacement anyways, really only alienate you from society. I understand completely why they are doing this. One, there are some that are dumb enough to share sensitive information with civilians through these sites, especially if they are under stress and maybe a holding a grudge against someone and want to find a way to cause some damage. Another is to prevent the spread of malware, viruses etc. that could end up being transmitted to sensitive networks. I really do have much respect for all those in the service. Don't give up, there are people in this country that love you whether you no it or not. Work hard and be men and women of integrity so that we can overcome any foreign threat that seeks to harm Americans.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]downer88[/nom]I don't think a tween and a soldier are comparable. Unfiltered civilian internet is already available in warzones anyway.The new Marine Corps policy makes about as much sense as the Army having a recruiting web presence on social websites, but now no one can see it on their network![/citation]


LOL wehat can you expect from a bunch of jar heads who actually think military intelligence is intelligent ??? i eman after all these guys are the guys that to this day still deny that any thing crashed in roswell even though they built one of us largest secretet (yet un secret) facilities for that nothing that didnt happen LOL

now don't get me wrong i'm not a beleiver in teh whole alien shit , thing , but come on ther was obviously soemthign taht wnet down in roswell , more than likely it was soemthign we were testing and stil are testing.

 

[downer88]

[citation][nom]okibrian[/nom]The mission always comes first. We made due without twitting or tweetering or what ever the hell you call it for thousands of years, so I'm sure we can make due without this twit shit now. You want to boost morale, call you family back home and say hi. Get out from behind your PC and have fun in the real world. Go surf porn! I don't really care, but don't give me this bull shit that this is needed to boost morale and is in any way mission critical. Your M16, bullets, boots and water are mission critical. Freak'n cry babies. I've servered the Marines and have the tatts to prove it. I'm sick of this MySpace, Twitter, and FaceBook CRAP![/citation]
I'm not trying to start a flame war, but again:
Just because "when you were a kid you walked 5 miles uphill in the snow to school both ways," means nothing to other people today.

 

[Guest]

You'd be surprised what information you can glean from facebook entries by service members..including what DAY they're leaving for deployment (which is supposed to be kept vague until a few days prior. .you can give a general time frame). Things you're never supposed to make public: Date you leave and return, and your assignment. these's "video game generation" kids have no concept of this, even though their instructors beat it into them in basic (I should know, my wife was an instructor in basic for the Air Force). People will post crap like "going on a patrol tomorrow." and other garbage which you know the opposing side can and will be watching. you report on it to your friends and family after it's happened when you won't get your buddies KIA because of your stupidity and need to blab. And the marine is right... Mission critical is what you have on hand. there are ways to communicate with loved ones..called email, OLD FASHIONED LETTERS and PACKAGES which are like gold overseas (even more so than email), and the ability to phone home, or Skype home.

 

[okibrian]

[citation][nom]downer88[/nom]I'm not trying to start a flame war, but again:Just because "when you were a kid you walked 5 miles uphill in the snow to school both ways," means nothing to other people today.[/citation]
Read! I never talked about when I was a kid or what unrelated thing I did way back when. I said I served the Marine Corps, so that means I am speaking directly from experience. And I still work for them, but now as a civilian.