HERE’S an excerpt from the Agence France-Press story:

SUVA, Fiji–Fiji’s military has blocked access to several web sites that contained damaging allegations against the army and members of the interim government, a senior officer said Friday.

Fiji Land Force Commander Col. Pita Driti said access was cut Thursday to the Web journals, or blogs, which he said were full of lies and a threat to national security.

The military-led government imposed a state of emergency on the South Pacific nation on Dec. 6–the day after armed forces Commodore Frank Bainimarama seized power in a bloodless coup, sacking the democratic government. It was Fiji’s fourth coup in 20 years.

THE US military has issued new rules that inhibit soldiers from blogging and restrict their access to websites.

According to this editorial, however, military blogging has its purpose.

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LIKE their civilian counterparts, many soldiers have also become bloggers, but of course the nature of their work comes with a different set of complications.

Alarmed by the possibility of sensitive military information being leaked online, the US Army is taking more steps to warn soldiers against blogging indiscriminately.

Here’s an excerpt from the Associated Press story:

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