The War on Social Media

摘要

The news earlier this year that the U.S. Marine Corps was banning social media sent some people into a near tizzy. How could it do such a thing? Aside from thernfact that it was not what Marine Corps officials actually said-for security reasons they prohibited Marines from using applications such as Facebook and Twitter on Marine Corps computer networks-the move by the Marine Corps, and the uproar surrounding it, spurred the Pentagon to examine its policies surrounding these collaborative tools and to assess how they are treated.