U.S. Department of Defense Gives Twitter, Facebook the OK

Freedom is on the move again in the USA: the Marines can officially Twitter. After years of patchwork Internet policy, the U.S. Department of Defense has set a formal policy of allowing access to social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Myspace on its network.

From PC World:

In 2007, the DoD began blocking sites including YouTube and MySpace from military networks. But that was not an official policy, it said in the blog post.

“This is DoD’s first official policy on new media.

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