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US military blocks entire Guardian website for troops stationed abroad
FROM: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ju ... ian-troops

Troops deployed to Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East and South Asia have 'theater-wide block' to Guardian

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The US military has blocked access to the Guardian’s website for troops in the Middle East and south Asia, after disclosures about widespread US surveillance.

On Friday, the Pentagon and the US army told the Guardian that automated content filters installed on Department of Defense (DoD) networks to prevent the unauthorized dissemination of classified information had blocked access to selected aspects of the Guardian’s website.

But in for troops in Afghanistan, the Middle East and south Asia, the restriction applies to the entire website.

“This is a theater-wide block,” reads a page that loads when troops in Afghanistan using the Defense Department’s non-classified internet protocol (NIPR) network attempt to access the Guardian online.

“There are many reasons why this site might be blocked. It may be blocked for your protection, the protection of DoD assets or blocked based on Usfor-A [US forces command-Afghanistan] information systems security policy enclosure 18, Centcom regulation 25-206, joint ethics regulation (JER) 5500.7 or DAA directives,” the routed site reads.

Usfor-A is the US component to the Nato command in Afghanistan known as Isaf. It is unclear if the block on the Guardian’s website applies to non-American personnel in Afghanistan, but if they use the DoD’s networks to get online, non-American servicemembers would not be able to access the Guardian website either.

But the block does not come from Isaf. It comes from US central command, the command responsible for US military operations in the Middle East and south Asia.

“US central command is among other DOD organizations that routinely take preventative measures to safeguard the chance of spillage of classified information on to unclassified computer networks, even if the source of the information is itself unclassified,” said US army Lt Col Steve Wollman, a spokesman for central command. “One of the purposes for preventing this spillage is to protect Centcom personnel from inadvertently amplifying disclosed but classified information.

“Additionally, classified information is not automatically declassified simply because of unauthorized disclosure,” Wollman continued.

“Classified information is prohibited from specific unclassified networks, even if the information has already been published in unclassified media that are available to the general public, such as online news organizations.”

Wollman confirmed that the block applies not only to troops in Afghanistan, but for those deployed anywhere in central command’s area of operations, which includes the Middle East, south Asia, and the command's headquarters in Florida.

The US military’s online filters for classified information are not new. In 2010, the air force’s protectors of “network hygiene” blocked access to the websites of news organizations that published classified material acquired by radical transparency group WikiLeaks, including the New York Times, the Guardian, El Pais, Le Monde and Der Spiegel.

But not every news website that published classified material detailing the breadth of National Security Agency surveillance is blocked on military networks in Afghanistan. The Washington Post website, which hosts some of the same classified information published by the Guardian -– as well as classified slides about the Prism internet-content collection program that the Guardian has not published – is unrestricted.

It is unclear how long central command’s ban on the Guardian website will last. Wollman did not respond to a question about why the Washington Post’s website is accessible.

• This article was amended on 2 July 2013 to remove a reference to Wikileaks "purloining" classified information.

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01 July 2013 10:36pm
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I believe the reasoning for this (I may be wrong as i'm quoting another source) was that if the Guardian leaks Classified/Secret/Top Secret information then the computer that accesses it gains that level of security clearance. It then has to be wiped and then declassified. Obviously these leaks could come from anywhere, but the Guardian is the most likely source at this time.
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David Richards d0mth0ma5b
01 July 2013 10:52pm
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Well that only works if no other news site publishes the details. Personally I think it's because the US Army has declared us all Commies ;)
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LakerFan d0mth0ma5b
01 July 2013 10:55pm
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Too bad pathologic paranoia can't be wiped as easily. But then there would be no more "leaders."
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marilyng d0mth0ma5b
02 July 2013 12:01am
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You're kidding?
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Wackedsteaks
01 July 2013 10:41pm
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U.S. most certainly is doing its best to portray itself as a laughingstock of the world.
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herodot Wackedsteaks
02 July 2013 2:04am
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The kind of laughing stock that makes the hairs stand on end.
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Bonzaboy Wackedsteaks
02 July 2013 12:29pm
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The laughing stock
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musubi
01 July 2013 10:48pm
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Well, with all those troops at "the theater" I suppose the authorities, who know best, don't want their elevated cultural experience to be spoiled.
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FranPn
01 July 2013 10:49pm
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The land of the free...
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sdkeller72 FranPn
02 July 2013 12:02am
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Yes we are free to be misinformed. ;)
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jimbo67 FranPn
02 July 2013 1:28am
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The home of the drone...
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Mikes005 FranPn
02 July 2013 1:35am
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The land of the free...
They're free to do exactly what they're told.
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01 July 2013 10:52pm
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It is unclear how long central command’s ban on the Guardian website will last.
It will last until the Vietnam War is over. Well, folks, we finally made it- a fully-fledged re-enactment of Vietnam.
History repeats; only the names have been changed.
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Edgerton
01 July 2013 11:00pm
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Seems they don't want the troops to know what they're fighting for.
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marilyng Edgerton
02 July 2013 12:02am
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Most of the troops the US uses are mercenaries, they could care less as long as they continue to get those big paychecks.
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herodot marilyng
02 July 2013 1:52am
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Mercenaries are usually recruited criminals are they not?
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sinbad22 marilyng
02 July 2013 8:48am
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Not really true, the US army is the lowest paid military in the western world. Lower ranks with families usually qualify for food stamps their pay is so low. You are right about the mercenaries(contractors) getting big pay checks however.
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JinTexas
01 July 2013 11:08pm
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Because nothing says "land of the free" like forbidding the troops from reading certain newspapers.
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herodot JinTexas
02 July 2013 1:55am
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Someone once said "knowledge is a dangerous thing". Now we know.
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19lux JinTexas
02 July 2013 5:26am
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Only the newspapers that publish the work of real journalists and report actual news.
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Eisenhorn 19lux
02 July 2013 8:45am
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Only the newspapers that publish the work of real journalists and report actual news.
You raise an interesting question - I wonder what the default home-page is for these boys & girls in sandy uniforms...Fox News, perhaps...?
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dcmarti1
01 July 2013 11:12pm
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Who's next? Euronews? France24? DW? AlJazeera? Certainly PressTV must be on the list.....
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MicheleDerry dcmarti1
02 July 2013 6:46am
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Who's next? Euronews? France24? DW? AlJazeera? Certainly PressTV must be on the list.....
Press TV was banned in the UK by Ofcom in 2012, the culmination of a campaign by the Zionist- aligned media, including Fox News, Sunday Times, Jerusalem Post and the London Evening Standard, et al; ironically, the same media outlets that reject the Leveson’s recommendations, arguing that they curtail freedom of the press.
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Mike5000
01 July 2013 11:16pm
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Pentagon armchair generals en masse shoot themselves in the foot.
Again.
And again.
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kaneandabel Mike5000
02 July 2013 12:51pm
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But here what is very important thing to note.
Pentagon banning only The Guardian shows that they are not worried any other news organisations is going to give too much material on this issue.
So practically, the Obama administration has successfully gaged all other major news networks. Which, looking at the news articles, in BBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, even Huffingtonpost it seems to be working.
So we must now imagine a world where US can actually gag all major news organisations, make them their slave and not just the tech companies like google , Skype, Microsoft, Apple etc.
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02 July 2013 2:49pm
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It's good they sit in armchairs since it must be really painful to walk with all those gunshot wounds in their feet!
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01 July 2013 11:16pm
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sandgrinder G.D. Jones
02 July 2013 12:52am
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The Guardian has given voice to many incarcerated non-violent drug offenders over the years ... and voice to a fair few incarcerated violent offenders too. I've read their stories here. I have no idea why they would censor your particular post.
What did you say, again?
We all want to hear.
And there may be a different moderator on duty tonight ... as after all ... this one of yours got through the censors:
Well if it might stop a guy name "whomeverthefuck" from sticking a nuclear dildo up my ass because he hates the way I eat hamburgers then I'm in favor of surveillance and data mining. If I'm that concerned about privacy the onus if on me to protect my chatty chat chat with with the big man who's got loads of the good shit. I mean really. The airways and the wires should be assumed be to public places. ANd you can photograph who ever you want in a public place. At least in Free American (except around a nuclear plant of course).
... and you say 'nuclear dildo up my ass'!

Racy. But still not censored.
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jimbo67 G.D. Jones
02 July 2013 1:31am
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By the sounds of it you might have been done for "off topic".
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Boico G.D. Jones
02 July 2013 1:35am
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You were probably censored cause you went off-topic. Truth told your posts do come across as kind of 'troll-y'. The Guardian cover a lot of ground. I'm sure you'll find stories about "governmental incarceration of countless non violent drug offenders, (mostly young black males)" if you delve into their (slightly massive) story archives.
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Mike5000
01 July 2013 11:17pm
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herodot Mike5000
02 July 2013 2:22am
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And still they goosemarch.
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Batters56
01 July 2013 11:36pm
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It's only considered censorship when the Chinese do it. Right?
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JinTexas Batters56
01 July 2013 11:46pm
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Exaclty!
When THEY do it it's evil When WE do it it's different.
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windies JinTexas
02 July 2013 12:01am
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If this is sarcasm, it's stupid....
If this is what you REALLY BELIEVE, you are doubly stupid....
The stupidity coming out of America for a few years now makes me wonder why we listen to them.
Pathetic really, promoting dumbness.
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JinTexas windies
02 July 2013 1:06am
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Feel better now? It was sarcasm. It was meant to point out the double standard.
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GeoffMack
01 July 2013 11:40pm
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Well who would expect them to want to keep their troops informed as to what freedoms they're allegedly fighting for.
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LaHaieDuPuits
01 July 2013 11:40pm
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re: ".....said US army Lt Col Steve Wollman, a spokesman for central command. 'One of the purposes for preventing this spillage is to protect Centcom personnel from inadvertently amplifying disclosed but classified information....' "
NSA's Alexander recently disclosed 50 some cases where he claimed PRISM helped to stop terrorism....wasn't this essentially, potentially also "amplifying disclosed but classified information"

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sdkeller72 LaHaieDuPuits
02 July 2013 12:00am
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I guess he forgot that once classified data is in the public domain, it's no longer classified.
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02 July 2013 12:04am
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01 July 2013 11:57pm
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They liken Snowden to Daniel Ellsberg, and claim Snowden ran when Ellsberg didn't. When Ellsberg printed "The Pentagon Papers", we had a free press, and all our civil rights firmly intact. Today, that is all gone, I only hope they don't get him.
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sdkeller72
01 July 2013 11:58pm
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I bet the troops can still access all kinds of other vile hateful websites that justify the killing of innocents around the planet because of their religion or the color of their skin, but giving them access to the truth about their employers? OH NO they can't allow that.
It's time for 320 million Americans to march to Washington and drag these criminals to prison where they belong and restore the constitutional democracy that millions have fought and died for over the past 200+ years.
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US military blocks entire Guardian website for troops abroad

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marilyng sdkeller72
02 July 2013 12:09am
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I am afraid marching on Washington has never had good results. In the 1930s, many unemployed workers marched on Washington, and were gunned down for their efforts. What do you think they would do today? No, people have to work smart, and considering the fools in power today, that ought to be something the people can do. People have to stand up and say they have had enough, make it difficult for them enough to galvanize them into some meaningful change. Please recognize that the Patriot Act, NSA Spying bill and NDAA pretty much gutted the constitution for all citizens. Throw in the supreme court's ruling, Citizens United, which ceded our broken election process to rich corporations, foreign and domestic.......it will take some thought.
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NikH sdkeller72
02 July 2013 1:56am
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What are you going to do when your own government ignores the US constitution? Isnt that in the constituion as well? The people need to rise up and defend it - this government needs to go. Every single member of Congress needs to be put in jail, along with their corporate puppet masters; they all need to be charged with treason.
I was never a supporter of the right to bear arms or the NRA. But right now, I am having a change of mind. The founding fathers clearly got that right. Marching on Washington is a last resort but we seemed to be headed there at full steam. We are getting closer with every violation of the US constitution by the US administration. Like declaring snowden a criminal and taking away his citizenship status without trial or jury! WTF? If they can do it to them they can do it to you!
There is no protection from this rogue government. Laws dont apply.
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bujinin
02 July 2013 12:01am
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About the only thing unique to the Guardian is Glenn Greenwald -- apparently they don't want the troops reading him.
As for the documents themselves, the Washington Post has co-published just about everything -- and they have been on countless sites in the media as well.
This is as political as it gets.
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marilyng bujinin
02 July 2013 12:12am
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If you look at mainstream media in the USA, you will see it is a corporate tool of the oligarchy, not a news source. In my opinion, the Guardian is one of the best papers on the globe. The UK still has a free press, unlike the US.
I am very thankful for the Guardian, and am sure I have lots of company.
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LaHaieDuPuits
02 July 2013 12:02am
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Sounds like an attempt to maintain morale, and thus cut down on the number of suicides by our troops.
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marilyng LaHaieDuPuits
02 July 2013 12:13am
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No, it is called repression of the truth, and it is appalling they are doing it. They cannot cut off their smart phones......it was a very stupid move by the US government, which seems to be their MO these days.
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windship
02 July 2013 12:04am
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Thanks for revealing that the US military apparatus is actually a mushroom farm, you know...."keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit"
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windies
02 July 2013 12:10am
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This just goes to show, the US military don't like hearing the truth...
They prefer brainwashed, un-educated individuals whose IQ must not be over 50 to wage war, when they want, to kill whoever they want, no questions asked..
A nation that loves perpetual war, in the guise of security, a nation that is fast becoming a "stasi" like state....
No one must criticize us, we are always right.
In truth, this is total bollocks...
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marilyng windies
02 July 2013 12:15am
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Sadly, you are correct. I remember days when we still had our civil liberties and a free press, not true under today's Brave New World government.
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3party
02 July 2013 12:25am
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And a good thing, too! What they really ought to do is to create a private entity, News For The Military, let Murdoch run it using old hands from Voice of America, and give it a complete monopoly so that troops cannot be brainwashed by the kind of stuff any free press prints. Meanwhile, coming back to what is, The Guardian is very clearly the worst offender because it relies almost exclusively on facts. Facts can be very dangerous. Fox News in the U.S. avoids them altogether, which is what our national security demands. The Guardian cannot be controlled and is therefore banned.
If The Guardian tries some foolish stunt, such as an air-drop of their sordid little newspaper to U.S. military bases worldwide, we will be ready for them. If there is one thing the government of the United States cannot tolerate during this war on terror, it is people outing the truth. The truth will out, but only after fifty years. So says the statute.
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02 July 2013 12:57am
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You can see just how dumbed down the american people have become to vote criminals in time and time again, even with all the revelations that have come out over the last few years. They really should stop watching glossy "reality tv shows" like Jersey Shore and Real Housewives and actually take a look at the REAL world in places like Syria where their tax dollars are going to fund the "Rebels" which mostly consist of Al Qaeda and mercenaries who pillage towns and eat peoples hearts, we need to pressure our representative in parliament to distance our country and our political practises from those of the greedy warmongering U.S federal government.
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Phil Greene
02 July 2013 1:02am
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The only real newspaper in the US is the Guardian. Keeping the public uninformed is our local media's job. Infantile patriotism is the goal here and it works for Americans.
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JJRichardson Phil Greene
02 July 2013 3:26am
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I wonder is this site blocked too.
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wimberlin
02 July 2013 1:07am
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Most of the US armed forces are such sycophantic unquestioning robots that this should not worry the Guardian too much.
But it shows that they perhaps are starting to wake up somewhat - good for the world but not good for the Pentagon. Perish the thought..........thinking soldiers!
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Phil Greene wimberlin
02 July 2013 1:12am
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Of course the soldiers are mindless as are all soldiers who join voluntarily. That is why there is no draft here; you might just get a soldier with a brain. God forbid. And God is a big deal here. Yuk!
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purpleswimmingtigers wimberlin
02 July 2013 1:17am
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If they were thinking they wouldn't be soldiers.
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dcmarti1 purpleswimmingtigers
02 July 2013 1:39am
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I spent 6 years in the US Navy and I could not agree more. If you want to help your country help your COMMUNITY: be a fire fighter, be a police man, be an emergency medical tech, be a teacher.
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Phil Greene
02 July 2013 1:08am
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Here you see skinheads everywhere, in their Humvee's Police dressed in combat gear, and mind numbing patriotic slogans on their cars along with Jesus slogans. If they could read it would be the comics, never the Guardian.
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jimbo67
02 July 2013 1:27am
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Propaganda - Goebbels by another name.
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limyozok
02 July 2013 1:28am
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Another mushroom factory op, as if this will stop any military personnel from accessing whatever they want. George Orwell would be laughing.
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dcmarti1 limyozok
02 July 2013 1:41am
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He's weeping.
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evereadyrick
02 July 2013 1:30am
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There is only one reason to keep information from troops and that reason is they will need these troops to attack the people when we finally stand and fight the criminals that have taken over our nation. The professional politicians who now reside in all the top positions of our nations capital are criminals, I can't say exactly when or how it happened but America is now the 21st centuries Nazi Germany. Our troops are waging war on other nations all over the world without the permission of "WE THE PEOPLE" the conflicts that have been started have been started behind lies and deceit and with secret pushes by criminal politicians, the constitution has been put on hold in most instances and our troops have no recourse but to do as they are told, those who would resort to telling the truth and standing up will be punished. Case in point Bradley Manning who is a true Hero and should be released. He and Edward Snowden are the Paul Reveres of the 21st century and should be recognized as such. What America needs badly is a George Washington to step up and take the battle to the bastards.
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thchak evereadyrick
02 July 2013 2:26am
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We had him. His name was Ron Paul. Everyone laughed at him and said he was crazy. Well everything he said has proven true.
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02 July 2013 3:15am
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evereadyrick I could not agree with you more on this. But I do want to say this as well. I also think this time is drawing nie. The peoples of Americans have been watching this happen over the course of many decades, and I think the reason we are hearing so much flapping of the jaws from the big city right now is for one reason, and one reason only, they know deep down in themselves that the American People (who elected these folks, and pay them to do a job) the true patriots of America have had enoug with the circus of politics as it has become, and now they are trying to figure out what they are all going to do when that time comes and the American people say this is it, game on! ! ! !
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Will D
02 July 2013 2:43am
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Direct media censorship now? It seems the US no longer cares about being seen to spy on and control its citizens' access to information. So much for democracy and the American constitution. The US under the superficially liberal Obama is rushing headlong towards being a police state, run by a series of overt and covert military and intelligence organisations who don't have to answer to Congress of the people.
From here on, its a steep, slippery slope down into the depths of suppression and repression.
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greatwhitenorf
02 July 2013 3:00am
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it isn't so much that these newspapers had hosted the leaks and classified documents but more of the fact that those banned are clearly liberal/leftist that are mostly against military intervention. wash. post however is not liberal.
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StuartBirdMan
02 July 2013 3:05am
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Note how carefully al-Jazeera is navigating this minefield. I don't blame them, after they were attacked by American forces in Iraq.
http://rense.com/general36/camm.htm
Having expanded the horizon by banning a non-U.S. paper, the Pentagon can now move on to banning U.S. papers. Pretty soon GIs will be free to read any news site they want, as long as they want to read Stars & Stripes. So far, the only other site covering this story is WSWS.org, so Americans will never see it coming.
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MichelSynaRahme
02 July 2013 3:34am
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Ha how strange. What are they afraid of, the truth?
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AussieJock
02 July 2013 4:02am
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The USA is using the Lance Armstrong excuse- everyone else does it.
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StuartBirdMan
02 July 2013 4:13am
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Plagiarism is out. Today, being banned by the Pentagoths is the highest form of flattery!
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jah5446
02 July 2013 4:15am
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GOD forbid the US' most loyal servants who are willing to give their own lives discover that they are being used by the powers at be to advance their agendas as opposed to fighting 'terror and keeping the world safe'.
our hope right now is that this mighty empire falls via a global economic collapse and the american people take back their government, their country, and their dignity.
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CertainFutility
02 July 2013 4:53am
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“This is a theater-wide block,” reads a page that loads when troops in Afghanistan using the Defense Department’s non-classified internet protocol (NIPR) network attempt to access the Guardian online.

I didn't know my tax dollars were going for troops to surf the internet, let alone access leftie propaganda media.
Good job DoD. Why wasn't this done earlier???
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MrsAndersson CertainFutility
02 July 2013 8:13am
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You really think it's wrong for your troops to be able to access news about their country when they are serving that same country? I hope to God our Swedish troops serving in Afghanistan can get information on ANY subject on the Internet that is necessary for ANY citizen of Sweden to form their own opinion on any situation. After all, they are putting their lives in danger for the international community. I feel sorry for your troops and hope our troops can tell them what the Guardian is reporting and why. "Land of the free?" What a joke!
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wimberlin MrsAndersson
02 July 2013 8:48am
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What are Swedish troops doing in Afghanistan?
They should not be there - this is the stupid right-wing country you have become.
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CertainFutility MrsAndersson
02 July 2013 12:33pm
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Why is it that any media outlet reporting on uncorroborated bits of the truth suddenly a mecca for soldiers??:-)
Besides I am sure the dismal number of swidish support troops in Afghanistan (a total of less than 400 and a number equal to that of Latvia's) isn't going to miss much by being barred from reading crap in the Guardian:-)
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benluk
02 July 2013 5:00am
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It's the typical US military reaction to the truth — Shoot the messenger.
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Jake_Shaftoe
02 July 2013 5:19am
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Okay, so secrets that everyone knows are still secrets, and subject to the rules of secrecy. Because f**k you, that's why!
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CertainFutility Jake_Shaftoe
02 July 2013 5:42am
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If everyone "knows" about a piece of information then its no longer a secret, but if everyone just learns "disinformation" then everyone is potentially f%$#ucked-up:-)
Propaganda is essentially disinformation that is designed to inflate "bits of truth" and a lot of half truths. Soldiers in active duty are the last people we need exposed to the insanity of disinformation.
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daysofhope CertainFutility
02 July 2013 10:52am
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@CertainFutility 02 July 2013 5:42am. Get cifFix for Chrome.
Soldiers in active duty are the last people we need exposed to the insanity of disinformation.
Soldiers live in an atmosphere of violently enforced orthodoxy. The word disinformation is quite inadequate to describe the level of mental control sought by commanders over their troops.
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CertainFutility daysofhope
02 July 2013 12:27pm
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"violently enforced disinformation"...oh my...I didn't realize soldiers were deployed to teach flower making classes in godforsaken places....
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angsty
02 July 2013 6:01am
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Anyone knowing service members know this pretty much ensures they'll somehow access the Guardian now, whereas they may not have even thought to before. They're not stupid.
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fredpb
02 July 2013 7:02am
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Any rag that distributes classified info for any reason seems to have limited talent to find other news, cashing in on existing crud. Cheap, trash journalism.
Too bad. Easy for these "reporters" to sit in a cushy chair in their office and complain how soldiers in a desert cannot see their crud. WOW! Big news...we copying sensationalism from other sources....look at us....wheeeee......
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emeraldvert
02 July 2013 7:14am
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@angsty Good point.I hope they do.The fact that a bloc has been put on this site suggests that some military personel are already accessing The Guardian.As you say they are not as stupid as some people posting here seem to think.
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Yachtsman
02 July 2013 7:27am
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Makes the US look like a (News)Paper Tiger. The Chinese must be loving it ...
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geoffree
02 July 2013 7:42am
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How sad that the USELESS state of america is so paranoid
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MrsAndersson
02 July 2013 8:09am
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Well - give yourselves a pat on the back - the Guardian must be doing something right!
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BearWitness
02 July 2013 8:24am
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You know you're diong something right if you're blocked by the US military. They despise the truth.
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John Molloy
02 July 2013 8:27am
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In response I have blocked the CIA from hacking my pc and reading my emails.
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twoplanes3towers
02 July 2013 9:01am
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This must be the freedom these demons are exporting to the rest of the world and the terrorists hiding under your bed and in your underpants hate so much.......
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Xiaoyue
02 July 2013 9:02am
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"This web site has been blocked for your protection."
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Kookaroo
02 July 2013 9:06am
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So the Guardian joins France, Italy, the EU Diplomatic missions and every human communicating on the Internet / phones as legitimate "targets" of the US Administration and their agencies?
Is there anything or anyone left that isn't considered a threat to the USG to be spied upon, hacked, phished, mined, blocked, and labelled a "target"?
"They all do it..." well, no, I'm pretty sure the Guardian website isn't being routinely blocked in other Democratic Countries. *Sigh*.
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A person or thing aimed at, or exposed to gunfire etc. (they were an easy target).
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Aim or direct (missiles targeted on major cities; should target our efforts where needed).
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YorkerBouncer
02 July 2013 9:08am
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If you're being blocked by the US Government because you're publishing things they don't want their troops to see then you must be doing something right...
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02 July 2013 9:35am
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"“There are many reasons why this site might be blocked. It may be blocked for your protection, ..."
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"Your call may be monitored for quality-assurance purposes."
"Your call may be cancelled for quality-assurance purposes."
"Your access to certain discussions of potentially controversial matters may be restricted for quality-assurance purposes."
"Your civil liberties may be violated or revoked for quality-assurance purposes."
" By leaving your residence, you give us your permission to film, photograph, track, record and store data concerning your person and your movements for our use in better serving you."
"Note to expectant mothers: Please tick the box at right if you do NOT want a security-tracking chip implanted in your newborn upon delivery."
“We hold these Truths to be Self-evident: That All Men are …"
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BruceWhitehead
02 July 2013 10:08am
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but they can't block child abuse images
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Jimbojimbo
02 July 2013 10:23am
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“There are many reasons why this site might be blocked. It may be blocked for your protection"
Protection! You have sent me here to the desert, to be shot at!
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Lucyhilt
02 July 2013 10:38am
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Seems fair. Must be hard enough without easing them to the guff churned out by Polly and others.
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daysofhope
02 July 2013 10:44am
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If a soldier bought a print edition of the Guardian, would that be a security violation as well? What if he/she purchased the paper but failed to read it? Is that still a breach? What if they only read the Wimbledon results? Or if they read the entire NSA files but understood nothing?
There's a whole epistemelogical world of guilt to be clarified. But one thing we do know- pilots who commit collateral murder, and Presidents who assassinate complete strangers, will be preserved, protected and defended.
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daysofhope
02 July 2013 10:54am
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Are US military personnel still allowed to vote?
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Derek Seymour
02 July 2013 12:02pm
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the US is still fighting for freedom of the people though, right?All those other stories about oil are just myths and legends.
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soowee
02 July 2013 2:43pm
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I assume that the US govt. has blocked The Guardian ONLY from the networks it maintains. I do not believe it is constitutional for them to bar service personnel from reading The Guardian on non-US networks.
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Agent86
02 July 2013 2:58pm
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Nothing says "we're hiding the fact that you're fighting for a government that spies on its citizens" quite like... well, hiding the fact that you're fighting for a government that spies on its citizens.
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Insterburg
02 July 2013 4:23pm
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Still can get Pravda, Tehran Times, Peking Post, Der Spiegel and Washington Compost - all say (plagerise) the same. Too bad Snowden is not a Scientologist or Homeschooler - then the Germans would support assist the US.
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Phil Greene
02 July 2013 5:19pm
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The US is like Germany in the 1930's. Skinheads everywhere, cops in military garb, police departments with tanks and drones. Infantile patriotic signs on the cars, or Humvee's. Flags flying everywhere all of the time. Creepy Christianity everywhere, Private contractors (think SS) and people shouting freedom slogans, contradicted by largest prison system on earth. It is a NAZI country. The US press is a feel good about America institution. Hating all things foreign is the norm. You have to read the foreign press if you want to stay informed. Americans have our heads up their asses, at all times, by choice, and that is the way they like it. Yuk!
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JamesValencia
02 July 2013 5:26pm
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Home of the brave, land of the free, eh. When did it all go wrong ?
I wonder will the USA launch pre-emptive strikes against itself one day, in order to root out weapons of mass destruction owned by a repressive regime, and in order to impose freedom and democracy ?
I wonder are the NSA frowning at this message ? "Hi guys, I don't mean it seriously, this is satire".
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Chris Lynch
02 July 2013 5:50pm
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The Feds only want sanctioned news to be shown to troops. After all, they're fighting for the freedom of corporate news to lie to Americans. Can't have dissent in the ranks, now can we?
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