CNN reported it as speculation last week, but it's true. Israel has jailed one of its' soldiers for Facebook photos. H'aaretz reports:
Of course, this doesn't apply to most of the other IDF citizen-soldiers, who aren't in classified units, but I wonder what would happen if Facebook finally gave Palestine its' own network and militants started posting photos of themselves with their AK-47s...remember the guy who asked Zuckerberg why Palestine doesn't have a network? He should be smiling right now...A soldier from the elite Intelligence Corps unit "8200" was sentenced to 19 days in prison for uploading photos taken on his base without approval to the popular social networking site Facebook.
This is the first time the Israel Defense Forces has sentenced a soldier to military jail for an offense of this sort.
The Israel Air Force has recently instructed all servicemen under their command who are serving in sensitive units to remove any photos they may have uploaded to Facebook.
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