Interview Revealed

Jimmy is a marine with the United States Marine Corps (he would prefer it if his last name was not posted on this site). He has been in the service since he was nineteen and is now twenty-two. This interview with him is extremely pertinent to the topic of internet regulation. Where the US government for the most part is leaving the internet and its authors to regulate itself, here is a clear cut case of one subset of the government, the military enforcing regulations. These regulations do not only pertain to government created sites but to public sites or forums that anyone can access and be a contributor to. The military is blatantly with no uncertain terms explaining to the troops that they can not post any video whatsoever on YouTube and the like. They are even going so far as to say what troops, who are government employees, must omit to their friends and family in emails home. They are crossing the borders of the United States in these regulations.

This topic reveals the shining disparity of government regulation of the internet. The military, a subdivision of our government, is trying to tightly control who has access to specific information. Where as the rest of the internet goes vastly anarchically, with slander and copyright infringement galore.