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At one of his campaign rallies, Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump advocated shutting down parts of the Internet as a response to radicalism:
As the video below shows, Trump told a rally that "We are losing a lot of people to the Internet. We have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening."
"We have to talk to them [about], maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some way."
"Some people will say, 'Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech'," Trump added, before saying "These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people."
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In two tweets, Trump turned his attention to Jeff Bezos's taxes:
The @washingtonpost, which loses a fortune, is owned by @JeffBezos for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no profit company, @amazon.
The @washingtonpost loses money (a deduction) and gives owner @JeffBezos power to screw public on low taxation of @Amazon! Big tax shelter
Finally, a Trump campaign statement released on Monday calls for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".
Trump is in good company when it comes to clamping down on free speech. In the wake of the San Bernardino attack, both President Obama and Hillary Clinton have hinted at renewing the war against encryption and denying "online space" to ISIS:
In his Oval Office speech on Sunday night about the fight against ISIS, President Obama devoted one line in his speech to the topic. "I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice," he said.
Meanwhile, Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, gave a talk at the Brookings Institution where she urged tech companies to deny ISIS "online space," and waved away concerns about First Amendment issues.
"We're going to have to have more support from our friends in the technology world to deny online space. Just as we have to destroy [ISIS's] would-be caliphate, we have to deny them online space," she said.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anal Pumpernickel on Thursday December 10 2015, @03:44AM
Remember, voters only have a choice between shit, shit, more shit, and then maybe some shit with peanuts. Kind of hard to blame them then for all the shit.
Nonsense. You're not forced to vote for candidates from The One Party. And if you don't vote at all, then from your own perspective, voting for a third party candidate would not be a wasted vote. The only way you can truly waste your vote is to vote for evil, even if it's for a 'lesser' evil. People who vote for evil are part of the problem, and you very well can place some blame on them.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday December 10 2015, @04:49AM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 3, Touché) by aristarchus on Thursday December 10 2015, @05:03AM
The problem isn't with how we vote, it's that we never fire anybody.
OMG. Tork has gone for Trump!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Mr Big in the Pants on Thursday December 10 2015, @04:55AM
Part of the problem is apologist thinking that it is "good enough" to just vote for the lesser evil...as the amount of total evil moves up each election...and was unacceptable in the first place.
Your system is broken. To fix it many heads need to come out of asses and others need to be attached to pikes on walls.
Anything else is failure.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday December 10 2015, @04:40PM
Part of the problem is apologist thinking that it is "good enough" to just vote for the lesser evil...
The other part is all the folks (in this thread, even) that would vote third party but just can't be bothered.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @11:04PM
I'm registered independent, and vote that way. What that does is lock me out of the primaries. I like Bernie. (rather, I dislike him less than Trump)
But my vote very literally does not count if the GOP tosses Bernie.
He won't be on the ballot, so I can't vote for him. I haven't seen a blank for a write-in in a loooong time.