Saturday, July 29, 2006
US Continue Atrocity Coverups
BBC NEWS | Technology | Pentagon keeps eye on war videos: "Sites such as YouTube and Ogrish.com have hundreds or thousands of clips from soldiers, some set to rock music.
At their most graphic, they show the aftermath of suicide bombings and gunfights between coalition forces and insurgents.
Many include troops using foul language.
One soldier who served in Iraq in 2005 told the BBC there was 'a tight watch' being kept on video and pictures posted to MySpace, with civilian contractors monitoring the internet on behalf of the Pentagon.
The BBC has not been able to confirm that contractors are scouring the internet for inappropriate material from the military.
But US Central Command - which is responsible for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan - does have a team reading blogs and responding to what they consider inaccuracies about the so-called war on terror."
I'm not sure which of the two is worse. US soldiers who have made too many Counterstrike FRAPS videos doing the same thing with thier videos showing them killing civilians. Or the US Military trying to cover up that such things are happening and trying to change the media to only show thier own version of the war (or fixing inaccuracies as they like to call it).
On a sidenote; the former is why I left iFilm behind, it got far too "American Trash" for me. Just videos of violence and filth all the time.
At their most graphic, they show the aftermath of suicide bombings and gunfights between coalition forces and insurgents.
Many include troops using foul language.
One soldier who served in Iraq in 2005 told the BBC there was 'a tight watch' being kept on video and pictures posted to MySpace, with civilian contractors monitoring the internet on behalf of the Pentagon.
The BBC has not been able to confirm that contractors are scouring the internet for inappropriate material from the military.
But US Central Command - which is responsible for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan - does have a team reading blogs and responding to what they consider inaccuracies about the so-called war on terror."
I'm not sure which of the two is worse. US soldiers who have made too many Counterstrike FRAPS videos doing the same thing with thier videos showing them killing civilians. Or the US Military trying to cover up that such things are happening and trying to change the media to only show thier own version of the war (or fixing inaccuracies as they like to call it).
On a sidenote; the former is why I left iFilm behind, it got far too "American Trash" for me. Just videos of violence and filth all the time.
