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: 2) by edIII on Thursday December 10 2015, @11:44PM
Uhhhh, okay.
Don't leave out the best part, please. HOW?
I would like to understand the exact process by which you believe that any vote leads towards positive change? Don't just vilify me and leave, you need to explain how voting can help us out of our current situation.
My position, which you can expand upon your refutation, is that they're are literally no good choices, and the system itself is rigged.
To rephrase your rebuttal, "You can't complain about eating hamburgers when you never said what you wanted to eat". An interesting position when you are in a land of hamburger and hot dog joints, and all you wanted was the fucking salad.
I'll admit, I actually told a small white lie. I tried to vote for Obama, but some voting registration stuff got in the way. That taught me my lesson. Even when you have a slick con artist saying all the right things, promising hope and change, you don't actually get anything.
So again, I ask, with all sincerity, HOW does my vote change anything other than me having less time? I did the thing. I helped vote in ol' Hope & Change. Nothing happened, and in fact, he went the exact opposite direction of everything he stood for while campaigning. I'm not wasting my time till there is a real option. I don't even believe Bernie Sanders. ol Hope & Change did the same song and dance.
It's not just the fact that politicians don't live up to their campaign "promises". America voted quite fucking loudly, with huge grass roots efforts, to make Net Neutrality the law of the land, and for mass surveillance to stop. We actually did more than what you want. Not just voting, we all (myself included) spent hours on the phone leaving messages for our Senators and congressmen. There was participation, discussion, talks, movements, fucking bake-sales probably.
No change, even with a clearly massive and passionate majority expounding upon many moral and ethical arguments of why Net Neutrality should be our future, and why mass surveillance is unconstitutional and wrong.
Creating the automatic license plate readers, and then the rest of us, harassing the living crap out of our politicians, completely erasing all privacy from their lives, will bring change in at least one area. Only by bringing them down and making them live just like us will cause change. Otherwise, scream till your face turns blue and your lungs implode. They're aren't listening to you, and they don't care. I'd like to remove their privacy and make them eat the same food the poor eat. You know, the food that is scientifically proven to give people shorter telomeres in their DNA versus the people who eat the "good" food that costs more. Make them eat the shit any lower class working stiff is eating in Chi-Raq.
Please. I'll vote for every single thing I can fucking vote for, for the rest of my life. All you need to do is to convince me that it's possible to find change in a such a toxic, corrupt, and hijacked government through its own processes. All evidence points towards the contrary, and any rational person can only conclude that the whole game is rigged.
Yet you admonish me for not coming onto the field and playing with you in the rigged game. Interesting, when even a fucking 5-year old can figure out that it makes no sense to play in a game where winning isn't possible.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday December 11 2015, @01:18PM
I'll admit, I actually told a small white lie. I tried to vote for Obama
If you're going to do this, it may be better for you to not vote at all. That goes for all the ignorant fools voting for Democrats or Republicans.