re: #283 Stanley Sea

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U.S. Air Force blocks Internet access to NYT, Guardian and 23 other sites posting WikiLeaks documents - Reuters

Doesn’t make sense to me.

Well, if you think like the head of a huge government agency, it does kinda make sense. My husband and I were talking about this, and in his position and with his security clearances, it would be illegal for him to read classified stuff that got released illegally. That means he could be breaking the law unintentionally if he read a NYT article that had something leaked in the Wikileaks stuff. Obviously the DOD doesn’t have the time or interest to prosecute people for that….but blocking these sites from government computers can save them having to try to figure out how to filter things individually.

Government computers are meant to be used for government work and not reading the NYT anyway. People can read newspapers on their own machines.