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L'armée américaine accroît son contrôle sur les "milblogs"
 
L'armée des Etats-Unis vient de renforcer le contrôle de la publication des "milblogs", les blogs écrits par des militaires basés en Irak. Ces nouvelles règles, mises à jour le 19 avril, demandent expressément aux soldats en poste en Irak de ne pas publier de notes sans les avoir auparavant soumises à un officier supérieur. Cette nouvelle directive vient encore renforcer le contrôle qu'entend exercer le commandement militaire envers ses soldats, à l'heure des nouvelles technologies de l'information.

[ Fonte: Le Monde ]

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The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.

Military officials have been wrestling for years with how to handle troops who publish blogs. Officers have weighed the need for wartime discretion against the opportunities for the public to personally connect with some of the most effective advocates for the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq -- the troops themselves. The secret-keepers have generally won the argument, and the once-permissive atmosphere has slowly grown more tightly regulated. Soldier-bloggers have dropped offline as a result.

The new rules (.pdf) obtained by Wired News require a commander be consulted before every blog update.

[ Fonte: Wired ]