Pentagon bans Towleroad, AMERICAblog sites for being “LGBT.” Coulter, Limbaugh ok.

Show me your proof that there are no filters for the exact things you just mentioned. There are, which I know based on usage of DoD computers, but feel free to stand on your soapbox screaming about half the truth some more.

BTW: If you notice, the filter also lists blogs/personal pages on every single example you gave. THAT is where the ban comes in.

Did you do any research into the 100s of sites of Baptists, Republicans, and southerners? Do you know how many sites on the other side of the spectrum are banned as well? You don’t and I would assert that with your bias you wouldn’t do that sort of research.

These bans are not based purely on content. They are based on whether people are found to be using the sites instead of working. Clearly, there hasn’t been enough time wasted on the sites you mentioned as not being banned. Also, you are getting information from one single organization within the DoD. Each individual location has its own filters.

Please at least be willing to admit you have an extreme bias in relation to this subject and then due to that bias gracefully bow out of the subject. If you can’t report fairly on the subject then you shouldn’t at all.

It is impossible to be a molester and a Christian. If you can molest, you are not a Christian. Every molesters is a fake Christian. For all we know, it is the CIA planting molesters in churches to destroy Christian influences.

Good. I’m a TS woman who opposed the TG and LGBT communities. People don’t realize that TSs are a type of Mainstream person like TG is a type of LGBT. The T on the end of LGBT is the choice of transgenderism, not the birth condition of TSism. A TS woman starts as a little girl that was born with parts opposite of who they are. They fix them, get on with life, and really have no place with the LGBTs. A TG “woman” is a man who chooses to pretend to be a woman, and any of his “femininity” is chosen and worked up.

Also, this fascination with guns, and elevating them to some status of a higher level promise from some divinity as the consummate expression of freedom in a Democracy. The very Country that introduced Democracy as a workable philosophy of Governance. The only industrialized country in the world that has this issue with men and guns And the Gun folks have made the 2nd Amendment an Amendment to the 10 Commandments. Thou shall have a gun.

It amazes me with all of the freedoms being challenged in this country just on a social level. That there are people of a ungenerate opinion, an antediluvian view of life. That guns come first in the matters of life.. An object created to end life. Is a central narrative in the richest and most powerful and successful Democracy in the history of the world. And we argue about guns and gay rights. And voter rights.

It’s the 21st Century and people still see America as a Dodge City for today’s gun-slinging White Males. You have no idea of how good you have it in the USA. When I hear Right Wingers yell about Freedoms. They should move to Syria, and get a taste of what the real lack of freedom is. Not this paranoid pretend loss of freedom gun people have created.

You have to understand, the GOP and the Teahadists had the shock of their lives. Americans elected a Negro as the POTUS. TWICE!!!

Now they are being asked to be accepting of another of God’s creations. Gay humans.

It’s more that their psyches can handle all at once. The emphasis on what they refer to as perversions, are only their imaginations getting the better of them. Their curiosity scares them, the fear of being okay with Gay people scares them.

The Negro President will never be accepted, to expect them to accept Gay people is punishing it. The GOP has decided on irrelevance.

Ah, a psychologist. A human nature expert. Reminds me of people who talk about sports with such certainty, yet they never played the game. They have every p[layer figured out, and the coaches decisions analyzed. Yet never played the game.

Those a BS experts, like to hear the sound of their own voice, and don’t much care that they sound like A-holes.

Your assumption is that I didn’t note that very fact in my story. I did. “I’m also told that the censorship varies depending on service and geographical region – it’s not entirely clear why the Pentagon doesn’t use the same bans/filters nationwide and agency-wide, if it’s going to censor the Internet at all. This problem has to be fixed Pentagon-wide.”

A) Coretta Scott King thinks “LGBT” is akin to race, so you’re wrong. http://americablog.com/2009/04/coretta-scott-king-racism-and-homophobia-are-the-same-thing.html
B) So you’re for censorship and permitting one political point of view but not others. That makes you about as un-American as you can get. You’re not that proud a vet, clearly.

Coretta Scott King thinks they all fall in the same category, and sorry Nullfactory, but she outranks you on this issue. http://americablog.com/2009/04/coretta-scott-king-racism-and-homophobia-are-the-same-thing.html

bingo, just what I said before reading your comment!

Hi, if you bothered actually reading the story you’d note the contradiction in the filter, permitting some ‘waste of the taxpayer’s dime” when it’s conservative, but not when it’s liberal. That’s unfair. Either you ban all the sites (and then we discuss the appropriateness of doing so), or you ban none of them. But you don’t ban the lefties and not the righties, the gays but not the anti-gays etc.

See, if you actually read before you speak, your comments and thoughts would be much improved.

No, you’re ethnic based on your genes, the same reason I’m gay. Oh, and how about the Pentagon create categories for Christians, and ban anything written by a Christian, but permit things written by Muslims – you’d be okay with that right? I mean religion is a behavior and a choice.

The air force is probably the worst offender. I would not say “run by dominions” but there is a LOT of discrimination against non-evangelicals in the air force, and to a slightly lesser extent other services. Part of the reason is that the Air Force Academy is in Colorado Springs, which is home to a number of Evangelical MegaChurches and naturally those influence it, and all those officers rise up through the ranks.

It is pretty easy to Google up incidents of discrimination that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has fought against. About 90% of their clients are Catholic or mainline Protestant who are discriminated against by the evangelicals.

Marines are bad too, they spent over $100 on a “spiritual fitness test” that people did not HAVE to take, but many officers and NCOs did indeed force their people to take, and if you “failed” you were flagged as at risk for suicide and sent to talk to a chaplain.

True!

I think DailKos is banned too, as far as I know.

Someone who uses the AF network on a daily basis. I have never seen an LGBT block but I have seen plenty of ‘blogs’ blocked. I forgot to check out this page at work, but I will have to do it the next time I go in.

Someone who has seen plenty of blocked pages on the AF network. I have seen education pages blocked for no reason. I have never seen an LGBT block before. I did not get a chance to test the links myself. I am loud equal rights supporter in the military and I am glad to see change in the branches…slowly but surely. I have friends and family serving openingly with no fear now!

Leave it to the arse backwards military.

OK then, time for some ‘edumication’ for the straight boy.

A. Jews, Latinos, Hispanics and Christians are NOT races, Blacks (African-Americans) are a race.
B. Judaism and Christianity are Religions.
C. Latinos and Hispanics are in fact from the Caucasian race (White) and Central American Aboriginal cultures (Mayan, Aztec, etc.)…..this will be news to many bigots but it’s true goodol’eboys.
D. Homosexuality is innate as in, you’re born that way.
E. Religion is a Choice.

Hopefully, this will clear up any misconceptions you may have. If not, I would advise remedial schooling at the 2nd or 3rd grade level.

You’re Welcome and have a nice day.

Fair enough, so why then are employees of the DOD surfing political websites like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. Ban them all or let them all be seen.

Nice dickishness.

What ever happened to “freedom of speech”? How is it the the hate mongers have freedom of speech, but not others? This matter need to be looked into by the CIA. In my mind hate mongers are traitors.

Trying to equate ‘gay’ with Jewish, Latino, or African American is
just gay…oops..! Yes, it’s gay and lame. That’s the right equation.
Let’s talk about good friends and ‘mates’ no matter the religion or sex
of any person and we have some sense. The gay community talk of love and
intimacy without ever mentioning the whole truth and fact that putting
one’s phalic member into the fecal removal hole of another is wholly
unsafe and repugnant. Yet two persons of the same sex can be close and
great friends without sex and be clean but the LGBT ‘agenda-driven’
group want to have it all without telling us what ‘it all’ consists of.
As a parent I/we have an obligation to educate our children and set a
proper example in the whole of society. That is relatively easy for
‘normal’ parents but how do you tell a child or anyone that anal sex is
proper or right in any manner..? Rush is a ‘dork’ but he has his moral
compass right at least. *smile*

Every time the liberal
defunct courts grant some measure of ‘right’ to some gay cause the gay
‘agenda driven’ tools push for more that twists and perverts the norms
of values and nature beyond belief…What as sick society we build
for…

No I can get to AFA.net but not to the LGBT sites in this article.

Michael, I salute you and thank you for your service.

Towelroad and AMERICAblog should file a lawsuit if the Pentagon doesn’t change its policy.

I’m sure Big Fatarse Red Ed Schultz’s website is still available too. This isn’t news, who really cares.

Why do you have your long nose up other peoples business if you are so grossed out? If there is one thing I’m not interested in it’s what is going on in my heterosexual neighbors bedroom. Somehow, we all manage to find mutual respect for one another, but you can’t seem to shake out the buttinskies…you have a problem–seek help.

What you are missing is this is a LGBT site that doesn’t have porn all over the place–you are posting in the wrong place, LOL’er ;) When the pentagon ban’s a this kind of blog, it suggests that the people at the pentagon are perhaps afraid of the ideas that are being spread about at this blog…like marriage equality and the right to fight for our country and simple dignity. Or maybe the pentagon’s paper shuffers really are obsessed with the act as you are obsessed with the act…simple solution, acquisition a glass table.

No they are not! I know because I am a straight man with a tiny 9 inches! And I don’t like Molesters, might even shoot one if i seen it going on?

and Most if not EVERY liar is a liberal democrat with looney left background. So what’s your point?

Micheal so sorry about the TRUTH, however ” not to worry” there are Good White PEOPLE , there are called ALBINOs, really, REALLY White, the others that Claim that color are far from WISDOM and KNOWLEDGE , that is white Repsents in respect to the color WHITE, and YOu who use that word WHITE ,so LOOSLY , Shame on YOU Blessing…

how does the pentagon ban anything from the people?
It’s time to ban the pentagon from the united states.

Well they don’t have as much money duh.

The person who wrote this piece of trash understand that being gay is very different from being jewish or latino right? Or are gays their own race now?

I’d rather people in the pentagon actually do work rather then surf websites all day but hey.

Exactly how is banning LGBT sites a “good story” for LGBT Americans?

Wake.The.F.Up.

Mercenaries are not US troops, they’re civilians paid to act like military personnel. Unfortunately they’re typically paid much better than our honourable troops.

And I was the second person to sign onto it…

This is nothing more than a feel good story to bash liberty on both sides. One side spews hatred for Limbaugh and Coulter, while the other side bashes ones choices as an adult. When will you people grow up?

Very interesting… If the military is OK with homosexuals, so should the pentagon. This is an example of how unorganized our government is.

If those two would get married they could make a lot more money as has cueball and Madelin. Talk about an “odd couple” show? May they all retire.

LGBT are part of American reality. It’s simply ridiculous that a department of the government as large as defense has a problem acknowledging that part of reality and is in for some reason some sort of denial. Good to know an agency that functions according to the morale of it’s soldiers and on “intelligence” decides to demoralize a significant demographic while acting blind deaf and offensively stupid at the same time. What Talibani brainiac thought this bullshit up?

Put simply, you are nuts.

Agree.

And yours proves mine, dumbass. Try and keep up.

If there were no “sell-outs” (gay people working in government?), then you’d be complaining about bigotry in hiring and you’d have nothing to complain about here, since there’d be no gay people in the Pentagon to try to access gay political sites. Instead of just whining and trolling on the Internet, why don’t you follow my suggestion, call the EEO office and get the thing fixed? If you’d like to change the system from within, try “selling out” and getting a job serving your country and fellow citizens. Try experiencing some bigotry first hand, then try to do something about it.

You clearly never heard of the Southern Baptists (especially the Independent Fundamentalist variety). Their coverup of sexual abuse almost rivals the Catholic Church. And because they don’t have a strict hierarchy, they just say “Not our fault. We don’t control that church”

I would suggest that you stop engaging in histrionic and passive-aggressive behaviors. I would also suggest the borderline psychotic among you cease and desist in serial killings and mass murders and attributing your sociopathic behavior to the general population. The 2nd Amendment protects all of us all from the acts of borderline psychotic adults and tyrannical government composed of sociopathic adults.

Why does anyone working at the DOD need to be surfing political or LGBT websites at work anyway? Save it for private viewing in your home!

It’s hard to define “Christianity” these days with so much sinning. The internet has opened the eyes for many of the hypocrisy of Christian’s and their tainted halo’s. It’s not just gays that have come out of the closet.

see what I mean… you are fixated on inappropriate and deviant thoughts that have no bearing on the topic. Please seek help!

Michael, yikes! That sucks and I’m sorry for your treatment from fellow “Americans”. And those people who behave this way, anonymously (as you described above) and in some comments to your post, are people who are cowards and can’t own up to the fact that they are intolerant and prejudiced. America has NO ROOM for these kind of people. And “asdf” below is an example of one of these people. SAD SAD SAD

Wow, the above article is ALARMING… As an interpreter, I get a chance to talk with people from other countries and a recent conversation with some fellow Chinese Interpreters opened my eyes and woke me up. I asked, “So, how do you compare our freedom to the freedom that China says you enjoy?” I was bluntly told that, “people in the USA aren’t that free… except you can criticize your government.” When you think about it, his statement was pretty much on the mark. We are told what we can do and when (smoke, buy alcohol, access LGBT / AFA websites, etc…)

My original intent of posting here was to ask everyone to flag

RJLigier ‘s comments as inappropriate. He (?) goes beyond the concept of “freedom of speech”. The guy (?) has a fixation on pedophilia, homosexuality and the like. If you click on his name, almost ALL of his comments are based in inappropriate comments, innuendo and hearsay. Maybe the govt should look into this guy. You know, the ones who “bark the loudest” are more likely to be doing what they are barking about, allegedly.

They certainly know who their real enemies are?! LMFAO!

Closeted homosexual bisexual men and women engage in pedophilia and ephebophilia………….

More sociopathic homosexual blather……………..the rights of serial killers and mass murderers aka borderline psychotic homosexuals and bisexuals……………Why do borderline psychotic homosexuals and bisexuals want to eliminate the 2nd Amendment?

And inserting hands and feet into your rectum_vagina which causes rectal and uterine prolapses is normal? What other species besides sadomasochistic homosexuals and bisexuals engage in such behavior?

wrong! Pedophiles are not homosexuals. Learn the difference between a sick sexual desire for children and a desire for the same sex in adults.

What mind altering substance are you on? Evangicals hide under the title of youth “pastor” and molest teens..I suggest your do some research that is evidence based prior to making a comment!

“Hate filled conservative sites” ? Sorry, just don’t see it.

What did anyone expect? That the Pentagon, specialists in killing and disinformation, should want a group that promotes peace and tolerance? In your dreams.

Problem there is, the Teahadists are locked in their ideology. No taxes on the wealthy, no rights for Women, no rights for Gays, no rights for low income voters. Guns for everyone. And don’t forget, the cure all of cure alls, prayer in school thing. 20 Children crying and praying their hearts our for a tiny bit of God’s attention. Nada. Complete silence and not a move of the tiny finger of the Almighty.

Most if not every molester is a White American Male with a Christian background. Do your research.

Rabid and liberal in one sentence. Yet to see any one other than a GOP-Teahadist with a foaming mouth. The mere thought of the Negro in the White House starts the foaming every time. Rabid and GOP now you got it.

My safesearch is off, and a search for “LGBT” yields zero porn, bigot.

Here’s a Google images search for “LGBT”–the category in the screen shots above. It pulls up ZERO porn, bigot. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22LGBT%22&bpcl=40096503&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.dmQ&biw=1366&bih=653&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=yqHmUK-cIcrn0gG5joHQDQ

Now that is not nice. The paranoia of a straight White man afraid of his own sexual shadow.

Who are these imbeciles posting comments about how there is no “LGBT” block when the screen shots in this story clearly show the Pentagon using an “LGBT” block?

They might have a better chance of winning if they were smart enough to spell “you’re.”

What’s your excuse for your smug and anti-gay condescension?

Tells us more about your bigotry than the site.

Which as unchangeable as a person’s race, but therapy is available for your bigotry.

So shouldn’t they ban straight-related sites?

Phobic? No one is afraid of you. We are grossed out by you, yes. Afraid? No.

lol

Shut up, fggot.

Actually it’s h0m0s3xuals who are most likely to m0l3st children.

John;

Great simple post. Ride the wave.

Women wanted to be counted as fully human. We’ve made progress but we’re still working on equal pay.

People of color are still demonized by images of the “deflowering of white women”. I wish it weren’t so. Many of our neighbors are in loving mixed-race and mixed national-origin relationships. They demonstrate love over tribe, blessed community over exclusion, every day.

LGBT people still creep-out many American citizens. Some people may never get over their feelings. Others will discover that love is love. They’ll discover that their neighbors and distant cousins and close family members have created loving families and are cherished members of loving communities. They’re raising kids. But they’ve got to see them (images matter), be with them (feelings matter), and overcome their inner demons, the demons that breed fear and hate.

Cultivating acceptance and love is essential to transformation.

Michael,
I am sorry you have had to deal with that kind of crap, I knew America wasn’t as far along as many pretended but had no idea we would leap backward so far after knowing better. Since the initial run of candidate Obama – the things I have heard and seen – the ONLY thing I did right was to teach my children to treat others how they would like to be treated. It really breaks my heart to know the pigs have brought racism and other kinds of hate out in the open as if it’s OKAY. Well it isn’t, it’s disgusting and wrong and the GOteaP needs to know it. Seems hate has been the only thing “trickling down” for the past thirty years. I don’t know how to fix it, but you stay safe and I hope you live really well and smile right in their nasty faces (or just to yourself) in satisfaction.

My employer plays FOX News in the lobby and the cafeteria. I call it a hostile workplace environment and an abuse of government resources. I actually did get them to tune to MSNBC once in a blue moon by pointing that out.

But I know who I am dealing with and might read MSNBC or Talking Points Memo at work, but due to the gay-friendly content I’d never even try to read AmericaBlog at work.

Military personnel are insane for the most part.
Lying, thieving morally ambiguous undereducated troglodytes.

I suddenly want to be gay.

This is about as shocking as finding stormtroopers on the death star.
This is what they DO.

We are the largest most powerful nation the world has ever seen, by far.
You didn’t think we actually need to spend close to a trillion dollars per year on DEFENSE, did you?
That we are in some kind of actual DANGER?

We are an imperial power, and imperialist armies like their soldiers programmed properly.

LGBT should not be a keyword for blocking a website.
If Google has the safe search that blocks porn but not news websites, etcetera, surely the Pentagon can do the same.
Unless this is just a display of homo-hostility.

Funny how the government runs counteractive to common sense. Civil rights and equal protection for all is censored, but loony far right hate speech is protected. Strange world we live in indeed.

No – Bluecoat defines nearly every site running wordpress, or ones that “look like blogs” even though they aren’t, as blogs and therefore blocked by the AF proxies. Its outright stupidity.

The Pentagon doesnt control the Air Force proxies. I used to work as a network boundary engineer in the Air Force INOSC. These lists are pulled from Bluecoat itself, and then specific exemptions have to be made per site to allow given its categorical classification. The Director of the NSA commands all military computer networks, and the Commander of AFSPC reports to him. The 624th Operations Center is the one who releases the task order or MTO to change proxy settings at the INOSC’s, which control internet access for every Air Force base world wide – at least those who are migrated into the enterprise Air Force domain – a project currently ongoing.

… and they are probably all spinning like tops now that Current has been purchased by Al Jazerra! (arguably the best news channel on the planet!)

Listen up, bagger boy, the blog is asking for equal access (or restriction, no one cares).

Why do conservatives apply one set of rules for themselves, and another set for the rest??

Probably about a GS-3 level huh Eleanor????

This is way below his pay grade

That certainly isn’t the case at AmericaBlog or Towleroad, and there are many, many other sites besides that do not show skin. You are full of it.

Don’t bother them with the facts, they’ve made up their minds.

Waaah. Just because you don’t agree with someone doesn’t mean they’re full of “hate”. Listen to yourself – do you hear how rage-filled and hateful YOU sound?

There’s an old saying, the Left thinks the Right is evil, while the Right thinks the Left is merely stupid. Based on the amount of hate coming from the Left in the last four years, I think that needs to be revised, and maybe even reversed. The Left is definitely not just stupid, I think a lot of them are evil also.

DISGUSTING! THAT MAKES SENSE HATE WINS FREEDOM FOR A MINORITY LOOSES! AMERICA SUCKS!

Come on…Rush is still a drug addict and Coulter is still a man the LBD still doesn’t work.

This should make one hell of a recruitment poster!

booo hooo hooooo……who cares if they’re happy or not? Just because you call them “hate filled” doesn’t mean your right. Its about time the conservatives WIN.

Nice. There is sanity in the world.

It is more likely blocked because they are “blogs” not just a website. You cannot go to even a nail polish or DIY blog without being blocked. I have never seen any blocks saying LGBT specifically and I have gone to gay rights pages. I will have to try at work to see if I get the same results.

Thank you Stimpakistan, that’s the point I’ve been trying to make that SC refuses to understand. The category doesn’t matter, its BLOG that throws up alarms. Jesus Christ, it shouldn’t be this hard to explain.

Here’s an idea. Use your computer at home.

Oh yes, and you of course have someone in mind who would be infinately superior. Or perhaps not. Maybe you just like to crawl around with vomit dripping off your chin looking and acting grotesque.

So much for freedom of speech. The really interesting idea is that this banning of sites is basically because of personal fears on the part of those in charge. Are they so worried that they are themselves are attracted to someone of the same sex that they need to protect themselves form being noticed? As much as I dislike Limbaugh or Coulter and the likes of them, I would rather know what they are saying than ignore the hate they are spreading. You know what they say, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Better to have them in your tent, rather than outside the tent and pissing in. Come on! Whoever is in charge. Grow up! Join the 21st century.

Good…good. Evolving works well for him. I was very pleased with the results of his last evolution.

These two Idjits, Ann Coulter and Rush…both got neutered after the Nov 6th election….

Who freakin types in google==>image lgbt gay, dimwit….but if you type in lgbt gay, what comes up are resource pages about gay/lesbain.

Everything is about sex to religious nutbags

lol that I’m not sure so sure about that

As a lesbian who worked in the Pentagon during “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” I’m pretty sure I’m up on the corrosive bigotry issue. But in this case, this is an IT tech support problem that could easily be resolved.

I used to work for DoD. We couldn’t even access NPR’s website.

Then leave

Don’t worry, nobody wants you.

Except for General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steube, who helped Washington win the Revolutionary War. And, then there’s Alexander the Great who conquered the world. Try again skankys.

I’m not sure why you think writing a person’s Representative is a waste of time. Contacting ALL your Congressional representatives is always a good idea…whether they’re tea baggers or not. They need to hear from outside their little echo chamber. AND gays, lesbians etc. have some very commited allies in the House. They also need to hear from LGBT people.

No, please! Keep digging! Make yourself look even stupider than you already are, Mr. Hawk2!

Why the F did you even come here? Are you a masochist?

“you’re going to love legalizing incest, polygamy and polyamoury.” Is that the same as priests raping children?

Go away

Hiding your bigotry behind an anonymous username is how you get by in the real world.

It’s called “pretext.”

If the pentagon could explain why the blogs are being censored then we could be more specific in our criticism. But you have to admit, censoring people on a blog suggests fear of what is being said at the blogs…it’s basically cowardice on the part of the pentagon. Who are they protecting?

Cheetos with jalapenos.

Look again. There was one screenshot that didn’t have LGBT that was blocked as well… yes, it was a blog. That’s the common denominator. I’m a DOD employee, they block cooking blogs as well.

An “LGBT” censorship category is unacceptable. Too bad you don’t have any problem with anti-gay discrimination.

Apparently you missed that whole “LGBT” censor category.

It’s the word “blog” that sets off the censors on DOD computers. Doesn’t matter what the subject is, if it’s a blog, it’s not allowed. Nothing to get excited about here.

Another swinging dick hear from

Bingo. It didn’t say blogs, it said LGBT. We can discuss the “blog” bias another time.

Is ‘hetro’ blocked?

it’s not something to over react to. I know financial firms who block the same sites. They simply consider Limbaugh and Coulter to be generic radio fare like The Ed Show, Rachel Maddow and the rest. Some Youtubes can be blocked from business if they suspect content might be questionable. In time, it’ll all change. The Conservatives are losing ground on absolutely everything… Fox news’ ratings are plummeting… just be patient..

You, however….

Then don’t enlist.

In fact, the overwhelming majority of porn sites out there are hetero-oriented… yet the excuse for banning LGBT blogs and discussions is because there is SOME gay porn out there, too? Talk about a ridiculous justification.

You’re right: It’s not our problem. It’s the bigots’ problem.

What about the bottom pro homo agenda?

In the Military we have no time for divisive Racists like Limpballs or that huge Adams Apple sporting giraffe neck scrawny butt sea hag, neither of them have never worn a Military Uniform and are too chickensh!t to enlist in the first place.

African American Air Force Veteran

FYI the Thanks I received for my Military service was to be spat at, rocks thrown at us, nooses hung from the trees just off Base in an attempt to intimidate us, refused taxi transportation while in Uniform from Wilmington, NC airport to Fort Fisher AFS and shot at while changing a flat tire in VA agian while in Uniform by a group of Racist white good ole boys, You gotta love the love some Anglo-american sheeple show their African American Military Vets,,,, Not!!

You lost that fight.

What rabid sites freestinker?

When will all this come to an end? One thinks progress has been made and DOD has finally righted a long standing wrong only to discover that there is still a long way to go. The very core of the Armed Forces’ leadership is still operating with an Inquisition emulating mind set. Where is the Secretary of Defense and why hasn’t he issued a “cease and desist order” and end this travesty once and for all?

Happy to see our Country is trying to get away from the perverted Gays

The Navy, I imagine is silent and runs deep.

Oh? that’s intg…

Oh no not Rush “I used a hairy butt pimple to avoid service during Vietnam” Limpballs,,, Priceless

These screenshots are of an off-the-shelf office web filter from Blue Coat. Chances are it was installed with default settings. While you can fault the DOD for not configuring it properly (or fixing it once it was pointed out to them) I’d be much more concerned that they’re using the same software that Syria and Burma have used against their own people.

What a remarkably stupid generalization!

These decisions aren’t generally made by military leaders, but by civil servants, who follow the unofficial motto of the civil service “don’t cause trouble”. So, we need to make it more bother to censor than not. Thankfully, we have a way of telling them that this is unacceptable.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-department-defense-cease-banning-access-liberal-and-pro-lgbt-rights-websites-dod-computers/ZJQVXfHt.

Out here in the real world, away from the fringe in which most of you seem to exist, there are people who still value free speech and who oppose censoring those with whom you don’t agree. The government doesn’t do anything quickly. Relax.

To be fair, the AFA and other Christian sites are probably blocked for their propensity towards child rape.

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How does your distinction explain the “LGBT” censorship category?

Thumbs down means people don’t agree with you. It does nothing to prevent you from commenting further.

That filter category is used to catch lots of homosexual pornography.

The vets of Vietnam that I knew called the Pentagon the Fumble Fort.

Slash their budget. The $500 billion sequester would be a good start.

Did it cherrypick that “LGBT” censorship category, or is there also an “evangelical Christian” one too?

Perverts have no place in military.

The Interior department (or maybe just the National Park Service) some years ago had no filtering, but were monitoring everyone by routing everything through some porn sniffing computer somewhere. So your job could be in jeapordy if you clicked on something on some site where maybe there was a nude photo somewhere you weren’t even looking at or for. Kind of like reading Playboy for the articles. Or some link or search item you thought was something else. Anyway they put in filtering about seven years ago. All the comics sites were blocked. You had to start with a news site and find them through there, heh heh. Too much fun? Eventually they let You Tube back in because they were blocking useful instructional videos. Also humorous pets.

A couple of years ago I did research at work for displays on National LGBT month, officially federally recognised now by the guvmint under Obama. Checked probably fifty sites with no problems. And I’m sure on occasion I checked out all those Pentagon blocked sites. You know, on a break or lunch of course. So the whole government isn’t as narrow minded.

If the Pentagon has the resources to censor LGBT websites, it can afford to have its budget slashed by the $500 billion in the sequester. Bring on the massive cuts!

Have no fear. My military buddy assures me that some of the most rabid liberal sites are permitted as well. This article simply cherry picks the conservative sites in order to bolster its viewpoint.

Come down from your homophilic fervor. Many normal religious sites are blocked as well.

Furthermore, anyone has the ability to request that a site be unblocked. Initially blocking broad categories of sites in the “LGBT” category helps the Pentagon keep all the anal sex sites off the fiber while bona fide sites are eventually let through.

Does anyone consider Coulter and Slimball’s life style normal? They are as disfunctional as a dog with 4 nutts.

A White House petition has been created on the issue. I encourage everyone to sign it!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/instruct-defense-department-lift-lgtb-filter-pentagon-computers/xY9yHYpg

This sort of mentality will never change. It has to literally die and be slowly winnowed out in time. Very slowly, obviously.

No not sexual. LGBT is to do with Gender. And as such, LGBT should not be blocked any more than Heterosexual.

LOL!!! The 1960′s called, and they want their debunked ideas back.

P.S. Not even being able to spell polyamory makes you look even stupider than you already do.

Rash Slimeball

People are allowed to take 15 minute breaks and lunch breaks.

Good.

WAH WAH WAH I am glad at least someone finally has the you know whats to stand up to the over the top pro homo agenda. Sorry folks, no chance for making gays on the Pentagon dime. You’re just going to have to keep indoctrinating and recruiting elementary school aged kids, You’re doing a great job , by the way, You must be soooo proud of yourselves. Messing up minors heads. This great sociological experiment will contribute to the destruction of this country, But you all knew that already, didn’t you?? If you like gay marriage, you’re going to love legalizing incest, polygamy and polyamoury. Can’t wait to watch that fight about “fairness and equality”. LMAO

I have never seen any troop bashing in any article published by the Daily Kos.

They’ll just say that NO surfing outside of their job is allowed. I’m sure it’s in their little employee handbooks.

I think we’re just going to ave to let this one die. There’s no changing people. I just wish people would at least pretend to be ladies and gentlemen.

Not much grace in your comment.

This is absurd; Actually, they should be on ANY sites that aren’t pertinent to their job.

start with your mother, if she even cares

I am a mother of a Iraqi war vet and there IS NOTHING NOTHING on Kos that says Screw the troops?! Give it up! In fact there are several veterans that post on that site, including my daughter.

Lawsuit?

The Armed Forces appear to be fine with taking the taxes of LGTB Americans to pay for their toys and everything else, but they still want to ban their websites ? What is their service to the American People wasting their time censoring websites ?

The Pigman Limbaugh & Pigwoman Coulter spew their elitist republican propaganda is okay with the pentagon but liberal progressive sites are banned – Even liberal & progressives taxes pay the $635 billion dollar a year to these pentagon Nazi’s fascists imperialism world domination crazies at the pentagon as progressives also pay a huge chuck of the wars these republican right-wing corporations profit from corporate subsidies, collusion and government contract give-sways to ALEC Koch brothers and other corporations…

For example…..Lockheed Martin $161 billion of our tax dollars, Boeing $121 billion
dollars Northrop Grumman $69 billion dollars, Raytheon $57 billion
dollars, General dynamics $47 billion dollars, BAE Systems $42 billion
dollars, SAIC $25 billion dollars, McDonnell Douglas $24 billion
dollars, General Electric $19 billion dollars, Oshkosh $18 billion
dollars and hundreds of more corporations receiving big paychecks
annually from the Pentagon military industrial complex from our tax
dollars…wars for corporate profits – it doesn’t matter how many die –
just as long as we can fool the Americans that the wars are patriotic
and that these wars for corporate profits are to protect them….then
the corporations can continue to make trillions of dollars….and
imperialistic control of mid-east oil fields so the oil corporations can
gouge us at the pumps for even more gargantuan profits.

Just wondering is the Drudge Report accessible? If so then double standard is being ues as to what is consiered political

I went ahead and created a petition on the We the People website to stop this discriminatory practice: http://wh.gov/UyMJ

stop digging, please.

Exactly! I would love to see a study of the progression of divisiveness in our country and the premiere of Fox News.

The City of Pittsburgh bans my blog, Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, because of the word “lesbian” in the URL. It is categorized as pornography even though my content is barely racy. While you are describing an intentional stimatizing decision, the default “filters” indirectly stimagtize dissenting views in Pittsburgh (like mine.) And let’s remember – Facebook will not let page owners use the words lesbian or transgender or bisexual when naming a page.

The military has always had a right wing christian hetero male bias. That’s the ‘norm’ for them.

Join the US armed forces where you can RAPE< KILL< SING jesus loves me and GET PAID!!!!!! We have the USKGB!!!!!!!…. crap heads…

We did….we are forced to see their faces.

Then hopefully this site and others continue reporting this story.

Simply keeping two of the most hate-filled sites allowable while banning others that aren’t even in the same realm of stupidity….is laughable and probably illegal if someone brought it to Court.

People are correct about blocking sites to do “work” but that still doesn’t get to the point of why right-wing sites are allowed and non-right wing sites are blocked.

First of all I am Gay. Second, before I retired I was Chief Information Officer for a financial institution that was subject to government regulation. We were required to implement security policies and procedures that blocked any number of websites. This is accomplished through rules to the organization’s firewall device. I can tell you that the government regulations stated that we block user access to all blogs, personal pages, chat rooms, etc. And yes, sometimes this included LGBT content. This was also a productivity issue since some employees did not have the discipline to do their job instead of reading and commenting on numerous blogs.

I’m not saying that what these government entities did was right in my eyes or your eyes. I’m just saying that some network engineer down the line is just following written security policies and procedures. You can request the page you are trying to access be reviewed and hopefully be granted access. Have any GLBT members of the military asked for a review for access? This would be the tell-tale sign of any discrimination.

MilitaryCorruption.com is extremely homophobic. No big loss there

This is against the UCMJ as a violation of the First Amendment. Whoever did this should be brought up on charges of Conduct Unbecoming of an Officer, Dereliction of Duty, Behavior Bringing Discredit to the Military, Sedition.

Praise God!

I am a VET and there is nothing on the Daily KOS that I consider to be troop bashing in any way what so ever … you just hate that site and that is all you wanted to express in your comment.

What does Obama think about this?…I forgot…he’s still evolving. Pathetic! I’m so tired of the culture of ignorance that pervades the Pentagon and some extent the country.

And yet you defend troop-bashing DailyKos.

Censorship like this is disgusting…so true, if the Pentagon cares about our forces, they will ban FOX Noise and their propaganda–hateful cast of mean characters.

Nice to see the dittoheads make an appearance. We were worried about them. It gets damp in those basements in their parents’ houses.

No, much more pathetic.

It’s more “Pass god and praise the ammunition.”

Exactly, so they shouldn’t have access to any blogs or news sites. However, they manage to let them take time out to read Anthrax Coulter and Rash Limpbutt. If they banned all such sites, I’d have no argument with them.

He’s evolving.

Why don’t you show the parts of Rush and Ann’s websites that show all the hate you speak of?

I am not surprised by anything coming from the dysfunctional Air Force. They also blocked Craigslist (owned by eBay) and militarycorruption.com (run by a retired Navy officer). Besides denying civil rights, their 308 generals have mishandled trillions in funds by over-spending, spending on unnecessary items and are unorganized. They abuse their volunteers and civilian employees, look at the lawsuit against Offutt AFB. If they were indeed organized, they wouldn’t have these problems. Radical Coulter and Extremist Limbaugh are much more dangerous than LBGT and social media sites.

Why ban Rush Limbaugh or anyone else who actually has respect for our armed forces? Liberals attacked Limbaugh because he exposed Jesse MacBeth for the phony soldier that he is.

They are already rapists. Isn’t that good enough?

I do not agree with how the don’t ask don’t tell repeal is going. gay people have always been there. i am not a jealous person. I want everyone to be doing well. That makes me the better person. The higher ups need to develop some leadership skills. When I say oh my, I mean: my my my my my my my in a very rythemy zone enough to feel sea sick.

The more they wave the flag the bigger the coward they are when it comes to these issues

I can’t believe I wasted my time reading this. Now I’m wasting my time commenting on it. That makes me almost as pathetic as this article.

A question: Are other liberal-type or fact-based websites blocked, i.e. Crooks and Liars, PoliticusUSA, Alternet, etc?

So censorship is good in your opinion.

You’d think the Pentagon would have more important things to do. Just sayin.

Thank You for shining a light on the real enemy. IGNORANCE and STUPIDITY, as your comment demonstrates.

“Praise god and pass the ammunition!”

More rable rousing garbage from the right is perfectly OK in the depths of the “faithful war mongers”!

What did you expect? Consider the environment of the armed services — we recruit people who are comfortable with those organization’s basic work product. Which is … killing people.

Aren’t these people supposed to be working?

It seems like the armed forces are spending a lot of time and energy with censorship when they might have other more pressing matters.

The Air Force is controlled by Christian Dominionists who are tasked with taking down the US Gov from the inside, because they are Patriots!

It comes as no surprise that the Land of the Free censors websites, because just seeing the word ‘gay’ will force Air Force personnel to run out and turn gay. One of their rabidly anti-gay consultants said that, so it must be true.

John: Seriously, did you expect anything less from the Air Force? I mean, they DID have a religious controversy erupt a few years ago at the Academy…we can presume that it has its share of RW basket cases.

However, I agree with the last sentences COMPLETELY.