Usage of Monitoring (Score 1)

When stuff like this comes out on Ogrish and YouTube (ogrish probably more than most; that's where the other-guys perspective videos show up), visitors, like you, and even the Pentagon, are doing the same thing: monitoring sentiment, and more importantly, monitoring for sensitive content. There's no over-arching conspiracy to control the masses. Soldiers need to be careful of what they post because of the "content" itself: i.e. dates, locations, troop strength, etc. If something like that gets posted, it could possibly be used against our Soldiers. And all Americans, be they neo-cons, liberals, or even moderates, don't want the repurcussion of that: dead American troops. They are just monitoring to help out the guys that are deployed. Ogrish gets a lot of jihadist videos. And with that, there are probably a lot of lessons learned for Soldiers from those videos...tactics that could possibly be used against them, and how they can combat them. As for the "bad rock music" videos, those are probably things that just raise the morale of troops. They spend a year in the desert, they might be sucking a bit. Who knows, until you're in their shoes.