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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: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Thursday December 10 2015, @03:48AM
That will be hard. Remember, Preibus and most of the candidates all signed a contract with Trump swearing that all would support the eventual nominee who emerged from the primary process. They thought they were locking Trump into the room. The fools thought they were outsmarting the author of _The Art of the Deal_ and will find that it is they who are locked in with -him-. (Youtube has the scene from The Watchmen if you don't remember the reference.)
Everyone still, even at this late date, are making two critical errors regarding Trump. Almost every 'serious' pundit takes it as a given that Trump will implode... as the days roll on and he very conspicuously is failing to do so. The other mistake is the almost universal assumption that he is not a serious candidate. News flash, if you expect Trump to lose somebody is eventually going to have to seize one of the issues he almost exclusively owns at this point, seize it and not be incinerated by the media firestorm he seems utterly immune to. At this rate we are going to get to the convention, Trump will have a majority of delegates and we will still be seeing the so called experts assuring viewers that he isn't really intending to be President and at any rate will be imploding any second now.
Hillary will pose no obstacle either, she can't withstand a microsecond of Trump's sort of total war. All of the other candidates would refuse to 'go there' with HIllary, to exploit her rampant criminality, lifetime of being a chronic liar, etc. because we can't beat up on the poor widdle addled lady. Trump fears no man, woman or beast and social custom or politeness will not stop him. He isn't going to stop and the establishment is running out of opportunities to stop him.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @04:15AM
Jim, you ate too many mushrooms.
Trumps pop with women?
Minorities?
He leads because he has too many opponents.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday December 10 2015, @11:57AM
I suspect Trump is only still in the running because his outrageous spittle-flecked outbursts are amusing to a population that was raised on reality TV, where the loudest, weirdest and most opinionated human caricatures are carefully selected from the general public and locked in confined spaces with their equally exaggerated and abrasive polar opposites. The social media generation call this cross between bear-baiting and visiting Bedlam to laugh at the loonies "entertainment", and since the lines between politics and entertainment/ celebrity in the US have long been blurred, this seems like a natural progression to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @01:31PM
You want to talk about chronic liars? Ask the people who forked over $35K who couldn't really afford to... for the a piece a paper and the chance to pose with a cardboard cutout of Donald J. Trump.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-trump-enterpreneur-initiative [linkedin.com]
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday December 10 2015, @05:00PM
the almost universal assumption that he is not a serious candidate.
Yeah, I'm sure an almost universal assumption by the voters that he isn't a serious candidate will have absolutely no effect at the polls....