And how exactly are military personnel at risk on DFI? DFI users make their own imaginary usernames and IDs and most of it is anonymous. There is no need to put ones' own picture on DFI and neither does FB mandate it so as a lot of people put the pics of their favorite stars, sportsmen etc on their profile.
What classifies a person being from military is their knowledge, insight into reality and their awareness of ground situation which in NO WAY compromises their identity, the stations they're based out of, or the department they serve in any specific region of the country.
This is one more attempt of the government to clamp down on military community from not telling the loopholes present outside to the common civilians, similar to how it tried and failed a clampdown on FB which is becoming the source of spreading their infamy.
As such there are such terrible conditions for our soldiers on ground. At least allow them to mingle with rest of the country.
US is involved in 2 dozen times more wars than we are and we have war veterans and even serving soldiers on FB freely communicating. Even Israel who is surrounded by enemies has its active personnel on FB, blogs, forums etc. The government is just trying desperately to stem the flow of its flaws that are being revealed by military personnel to the common taxpayers and fear that this would augment their defeat in any future elections.
Simple as that.
If they can allow stupid anglicized media channels to actually telecast 26/11 live where terrorists in Pakistan can watch on the TV and instruct the people inside the hotel, or for that matter that stupid witch Burkha Dutt actually revealing IA artillery positions during Kargil conflict, this news of clamping military personnel down in online world is plain political bullying.
I hope our armed forces comeback with a strong argument and refuse to accept this perverse mandate.