Posted on 04/26/2013 7:00:47 AM PDT by opentalk
The Pentagon blocked access to the Southern Baptist Convention’s website recently because it contained “hostile content” that was later determined to be malware, a military spokesman said Thursday.
“We determined that our web filters recently detected malware at the SBC website, which resulted in the block for some service members,” Lt. Col. Damien Pickart said in a prepared statement. “The department has verified that the Southern Baptist Convention website no longer contains malware that may pose a threat to our networks and will be unblocked today.”
Pickart denied the block had anything to do with the religious content of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.“The Department of Defense strongly supports the religious rights of service members, to include their ability to access religious websites like that of the SBC,” he said.
Hundreds of Southern Baptist military personnel and chaplains across the nation reported earlier this week they could no longer access the SBC.net website on base computers. Instead, they received a message saying the website had been blocked due to “hostile content.”
At the same time, soldiers reported they could access websites of other religious faiths and organizations.
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Malware=Jesus Christ
… “It’s been a steady attack on faith and religious freedom that we’ve seen in our military like we’ve never seen before,” Forbes told Fox News. “We are getting a lot of calls from soldiers saying ‘we’re afraid of going to church, we’re afraid to be seen praying, we’re afraid that would hurt our careers, our promotions.’”
Everyone involved in this needs to be busted to buck private and thrown in the brig.
OMG — and I mean that prayerfully. What have we come to in this country?
This is not a big deal.
The DOD Network ops blocks all sorts of sites known to have, or detected to have, misbehaving software.
Perhaps this was a false positive, but there is no sinister policy and practice going on here.
Wha? Aren’t we paying them to keep us SAFE from bad guys who want to harm us?
So far, they’ve missed a few...looking in the wrong place, idiots.
Exactly.
Like shining a light on cockroaches - watch them scatter.
I say this as a broken-hearted Army vet who retired in 2011 just as suicide prevention became a searing issue. The latest command guidelines make no mention whatsoever of the role of religion in preventing suicide. It’s all gone touchy-feely secularistic with no improvement in the overall climate.
This latest is organizational hostility to the spiritual, pure & simple.
Free Republic was blocked at work for months. It stayed blocked until I showed an LTC that it was in support of the military. The DUmp was still blocked when I retired at the end of 2011.
The Gaystapo has pretty much taken over the military since 2011, and given a free hand to denigrate, disparage and hogtie their arch-enemy: practicing Christians.
No.
Well, stop bein’ so damn afraid, you wussies! Do what you do. That’s what I do. If anybody says anything, stand your ground. If you get hassled, post it far and wide. There are MANY of us unafraid Christians ready to back you up.
Colonel, USAFR
Well said, talk radio started covering this specific issue yesterday..maybe helped.
In defense of the Military, at one point somebody hacked our company’s website and planted some malware on it. We had it quickly removed, but our site STILL turns up on lists of bad ones out there. Same thing happened to the website of a Presbyterian Church where I live.
This is everywhere - "LA Top Cop in Bed with Moslems" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siOgo1QHfZw
It is true that political correctness and leftist stupidity is working its way into the DoD. Green fleets. Diversity committees and policies. Christian chaplains compelled to not be Christian. Plus Naplolitano’s terror guide.
But this network ops site blocking sounds like either a genuine hit on bad software, or a false hit. This is the megalithic DOD bureaucracy at work.
The DOD blocks many sites for (more or less) legitimate web security reasons.
The malware-blocked sites are increasing.
We had one ourselves. Even after we got the malware removed Bing blocked it from users for weeks.
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