The U.S. Army banned its members from reading the website of The Guardian,
the publication that broke several stories about the National Security
Agency's surveillance program. An Army spokesman confirmed that it had
filtered "some access to press coverage and online content about the NSA
leaks." Their rationale for censoring access to the website was to preserve "network hygiene."
The Pentagon insisted the Department of Defense was not seeking to
block the whole website, merely taking steps to restrict access to
certain content. But a spokesman for the Army's Network Enterprise Technology Command in Arizona confirmed that this was a widespread policy, likely
to be affecting hundreds of defence facilities.
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