Brog2! A threat to China! and the... USAF? [Ben]

Apparently Brog2's trenchant analysis of political and military issues poses a threat to the people of China as well as our own Air Force. As you may recall from a previously linked article, behind the Great Firewall, all sites on the Blogger network are inaccessible.

Apparently the USAF was just as impressed as Brog2 by the Chinese government's erection of subtle barriers to potentially seditious information as they've instituted some of Beijing's policies without alteration:

AFNOC has imposed bans on all sites with "blog" in their URLs, thus cutting off any sites hosted by Blogspot. Other blogs, and sites in general, are blocked based on content reviews performed at the base, command and AFNOC level ...

The idea isn't to keep airmen in the dark -- they can still access news sources that are "primary, official-use sources," said Maj. Henry Schott, A5 for Air Force Network Operations. "Basically ... if it's a place like The New York Times, an established, reputable media outlet, then it's fairly cut and dry that that's a good source, an authorized source," he said ...

There's a chance that since Brog2.com is self-hosted, and we've subtly avoided the "Blog" label in our URL, we may have side-stepped the wizards at the Air Force's censorship command for now. I've been talking to Liam about a redesign, but now I think it might be best to stick with the current theme and its vaguely Asian pastiche. With the USAF's newly acquired Chinese sensibilities and all, we might be able to continue slipping under the radar and retain our wide following among airmen.