{"id":318,"date":"2006-07-30T21:47:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/pentagon-monitoring-video-posting-by-soldiers\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:56:58","slug":"pentagon-monitoring-video-posting-by-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/pentagon-monitoring-video-posting-by-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Monitoring Video Posting By Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired people and social networks have changed everything, <em>even war<\/em>. The BBC is reporting that the Pentagon is keeping a close eye on the videos that soldiers post to online video-sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace.<\/p>\n<p>From the article &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pentagon is keeping a close eye on what its troops post online, with special attention being paid to videos that show the aftermath of combat.<\/p>\n<p>There is no specific policy that bans troops from posting graphic material.<\/p>\n<p>But troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan are hearing the message that they should consider carefully what videos they upload to the web.<\/p>\n<p>Sites such as YouTube and Ogrish.com have hundreds or thousands of clips from soldiers, some set to rock music.<\/p>\n<p>At their most graphic, they show the aftermath of suicide bombings and gunfights between coalition forces and insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Many include troops using foul language.<\/p>\n<p>One soldier who served in Iraq in 2005 told the BBC there was &#8220;a tight watch&#8221; being kept on video and pictures posted to MySpace, with civilian contractors monitoring the internet on behalf of the Pentagon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the entire BBC article @ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/5226254.stm\">Pentagon keeps eye on war videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired people and social networks have changed everything, even war. The BBC is reporting that the Pentagon is keeping a close eye on the videos that soldiers post to online video-sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace. From the article &#8212; The Pentagon is keeping a close eye on what its troops post online, with special [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/pentagon-monitoring-video-posting-by-soldiers\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Pentagon Monitoring Video Posting By Soldiers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6297,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}