http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-e4572547jan02,0,1936295.story
"Letters home filled with tales of death and danger, bravery and boredom are a wartime certainty. And now, as hundreds of soldiers overseas have started keeping Internet journals about the heat, the homesickness, the bloodshed, word speeds from the battlefront faster than ever.

More and more, though, U.S. military commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan are clamping down on these military Web logs, known as milblogs. After all, digital photos of blown-up tanks and gritty comments on urban warfare don't just interest mom and dad.

The enemy, too, has a laptop and satellite link."

What took them so long. If the military is censoring snail-mail, then they should be limiting all sorts of communication for the troops including email. Not that I know for certain whether they censor mail, slow or fast.