Department of Defense Eases Social-Media Policy
The Department of Defense reversed its three-year-old policy banning access to social-networking sites by unclassified computers in the .mil domain, as well as launching its own social-media hub that incorporates live Twitter feeds, TweetMeme buttons and Share on Facebook links, ReadWriteWeb reported.
Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube were originally banned by the Pentagon in May 2007, according to ReadWriteWeb, and the Marine Corps followed suit this past August.
The DoD said on its hub:
Under this new policy, there will be open and consistent access across the board, but prohibited content sites (gambling, pornography, hate-crime activities) will still be blocked.
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