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Title: Soldiers React to Blogging 'Ban' - Nicholas Carlson, Internet News Post by: Mark David on June 07, 2007, 01:29:03 AM Are American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq losing their first amendment rights? A controversy continued to stir heading into Memorial Day weekend over new rules restricting soldier's creation of blogs. Earlier this month, news broke that on April 17 the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. Army updated their Operations Security (OPSEC) policy to require soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq notify their immediate supervisor when they want to publish a blog. After notifying an OPSEC officer or a supervisor, soldiers are allowed to blog, so long as they don't disclose information not available to the general public, Major Patrick Ryder told internetnews.com.
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