The recent
scandal of unauthorized photo-sharing in the Marine Corps of indecent images of
female Marines certainly draws attention to how social media can be disruptive
on the job and particularly in the military.
Business
Insider has a detailed account of the potentialities here. Servicemen attempted to circumvent the
closing of a Facebook group by going to a message board site called
AnonIB. I tried to go to the “.co” domain and instant
got a (heterosexual) pornographic message and nude female image.
In the
backdrop, of course, is the cultural change over women in combat, and, more
distantly, gays in the military. But it’s
unlikely that gay photosharing would get very far in the military even given
the 2011 repeal of “don’t ask don’t tell”.
This could
add to Trump’s distrust of computers and Internet culture, with serious
consequences for free speech in other areas later.
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