Comments on: Bureaucracies and information http://marctyrrell.com/2009/07/15/bureaucracies-and-information/ Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:09:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://marctyrrell.com/2009/07/15/bureaucracies-and-information/comment-page-1/#comment-13367 admin Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:52:51 +0000 http://marctyrrell.com/?p=243#comment-13367 Hi Schmedlap, I've heard of similar, almost random, blockings of sites. For example, CENTCOM blocked the SWJ in an on-again, off-again fashion in 2007-08, while the Navy blocked SWJ but not a bunch of sports and porn sites. It does make one wonder... . Hi Schmedlap,

I’ve heard of similar, almost random, blockings of sites. For example, CENTCOM blocked the SWJ in an on-again, off-again fashion in 2007-08, while the Navy blocked SWJ but not a bunch of sports and porn sites. It does make one wonder… .

]]> By: Schmedlap http://marctyrrell.com/2009/07/15/bureaucracies-and-information/comment-page-1/#comment-13366 Schmedlap Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:22:37 +0000 http://marctyrrell.com/?p=243#comment-13366 I'm not sure if this is still true, but in 2007 and 2008, when I was in the Army, I could not access the website of the American Enterprise Institute from an Army network. That was the case in the DC capital area and when I was in Iraq. I found that a bit odd. I also could not email them (for example, when I wanted some information on an upcoming event - a public lecture that I wanted to sit in on). I spent a fair amount of time on many think tank websites researching various transnational terror groups, as I often found their information to more up to date than what I could find in our own intelligence products (particularly Jamestown Foundation - great stuff). AEI was the only site that I ever encountered a problem on. This was in stark contrast to the rhetoric in the media at that time, which painted AEI as some behind-the-scenes collection of neocon overlords who were the puppet masters of the White House and DoD. I am sure that the problem was not caused by AEI's server, since I never had a problem accessing their site from home, but was always denied by Army networks. I’m not sure if this is still true, but in 2007 and 2008, when I was in the Army, I could not access the website of the American Enterprise Institute from an Army network. That was the case in the DC capital area and when I was in Iraq. I found that a bit odd. I also could not email them (for example, when I wanted some information on an upcoming event – a public lecture that I wanted to sit in on). I spent a fair amount of time on many think tank websites researching various transnational terror groups, as I often found their information to more up to date than what I could find in our own intelligence products (particularly Jamestown Foundation – great stuff). AEI was the only site that I ever encountered a problem on. This was in stark contrast to the rhetoric in the media at that time, which painted AEI as some behind-the-scenes collection of neocon overlords who were the puppet masters of the White House and DoD. I am sure that the problem was not caused by AEI’s server, since I never had a problem accessing their site from home, but was always denied by Army networks.

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