Censorship in the Military

Screening and censoring the mail that soldiers send home is an age-old strategy used by most militaries around the world. The problem is that often times the government will edit or confiscate letters they feel pose a threat to the security of the war. The military should not be able to screen mail because the odds of one of the letters reaching enemy hands, and also containing useful information are too slim. It isn't fair to the soldiers, the families, or the American public because it denies them much desired information about a war that we are supposed to be supportive of.
Now that we are entering a new era where numerous messages are sent home to families over the internet, we have to decide whether or not those messages should be screened also. In truth these messages pose more of a threat because they are posted on the internet where insurgents can possibly get their hands on them and use them to disrupt the war effort. It is messages like these that should therefore be screened and possibly censored.
The reality is that the internet is not a very safe place to be putting important information that you don't want to be shared. Recently the army has adjusted a lot of the rules concerning how you can post things on the internet. The military believes that by reading enough of the e-mails or blogs that soldiers post, they may be able to construct an idea of what the military is doing. Therfore they fell that it is necessary to censor what soldiers post on the internet.