Air Force is Studying Blogs
Ah, government efficiency: The US Air Force is spending $450,000 to study blogs and create a tool to find out what bloggers are blogging about at a given point in time.
For about $400,000 less than that, I’ll make them a deal and point them to Te…
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So the Air Force is going to monitor free speech, to see if there is anything they don’t like? Then what will they do? Arrest the bloggers responsible for it? First I had to worry about my employers reading my blog, now I have to worry about the USAF. Really great.
Hey Montoya: If you’re only now starting to worry, you’re way behind.
If you’re honestly that worried, why post it? It’s public information the second you hit “Publish”. If you don’t want others reading it there’s always password protection or private entries. The sad thing is that if they don’t do all they can and America is attacked everyone will say, “why didn’t they do all they could to protect us?” In other words, no matter WHAT they do it’s a lose/lose situation. Lame? You bet.