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You think militaries across the world would start implementing harsher punishments against soldiers bringing phones into warzones recording their warcrimes while fortnite dancing. (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by LaForgeRayBans@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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But it seems like every fucking day there’s a new video of drones blowing up cars, snipers shooting kids, POW’s getting murdered. Generals should have known that letting cameras on a battlefield was a bad idea since Vietnam. Now personally I think it’s good this stuff is being documented, not like I want it to happen or want to see it but at least there’s evidence, but I’m thinking from a warmongers perspective, why would you want footage of war to be so wildly disseminated? How hard is it to take away a phone from a soldier? I don’t know how to feel about this, I just know it’s an incredibly wide security gap that no army is willing to plug.

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Back in the early 2000's we'd have sledehammer parties where we'd dig through everybody's shit after we deployed somewhere we weren't supposed to have unsecured communications and publicly smash the shit out of all the cellphones we could confiscate.

Now? Cellphones are super cheap, readily available, and the cultural shift to just accepting them absolutely everywhere and at all times made its way into being accepted.

Smart phones and dumb phones with camera/video recording functions got to the point that everybody wanted to (and could more easily) capture moments of "history" regardless of consequence.

How hard is it to take away a phone from a soldier? I don’t know how to feel about this, I just know it’s an incredibly wide security gap that no army is willing to plug.

They are cheap and plentiful. Taking a phone away is one thing, but keeping them from getting another one? That's a losing battle.