Military personnel get some restrictions

I can understand putting limits on our troops' networking habits.  While some may look at it as an infringement of rights, it can't be denied that if there's too much traffic on our military networks, bandwidth can suffer.  I think that a fringe benefit of limiting certain internet activities (especially bandwidth-hogging video sharing) is better security all around.  While this article points out that the impetus for blocking some sites (MySpace, YouTube) is preservation of bandwidth, the army's regulation a couple of weeks ago speaks differently. That regulation requires that soldiers get approval from superior officers before they join online discussion groups, send personal e-mails or post blogs - clearly a ruling developed with security in mind.  Whether troops will be adhering to that policy remains to be seen, but it should make it clear that the army is aware that eavesdropping over the net is a potentially dangerous issue that they won't ignore.