While I can whole-heartedly agree that Operational Security (OPSEC) is important, I do not agree that the DoD has a right to remove everything that COULD be important to a terrorist from the web.

That way lies a despotic, Orwellian government. We are already on that slope with suspension of due process, non-uniform application of the law and dispersal of civil liberties for the convenience of law enforcement.

I am not saying that the government should give out classified information, but if the information is so important that it should not be published to the public, maybe it needs to be classified. I worked in Naval Intelligence for a while, and the difference is as clear as night and day when you can see all of it.

This move merely restricts information from the populace of the United States. It also tries to make security by denial of information, while trying to ignore the fact that the budgeting for other types of security is ignored.

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