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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: 3, Insightful) by basicbasicbasic on Thursday December 10 2015, @09:43AM
If you do not vote, you have no right to complain.
Fine. Because by that logic if I don't vote then the winner of the vote has no right to rule over me, either.
Many people believe that voting only legitimises a corrupt system, and you don't sign away your right to complain about something just because you haven't voted in it - that assumes that you've agreed to the rules of something you are refusing to take part in.
Democracy is sometimes called two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. If the sheep doesn't vote, does it have no right to complain when the wolves vote for sheep for dinner?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @11:31AM
People who do not vote are better than people who vote for the lesser of two evils. But they would be even better if they voted for some candidate they actually like. They wouldn't vote otherwise, so it's not a 'waste' even if one is foolish enough to believe that not voting for democrats and republicans is a wasted vote.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday December 10 2015, @04:32PM
Fine. Because by that logic if I don't vote then the winner of the vote has no right to rule over me, either.
There's this thing called the Constitution that disagrees with this assertion. It says that whoever wins, regardless of who exactly votes, get to run the Legislative, Executive and (sometimes) Judicial branches.
(Score: 2) by basicbasicbasic on Thursday December 10 2015, @06:39PM
I didn't vote for the Constitution, either.