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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: 0, Troll) by fnj on Thursday December 10 2015, @07:47AM
Did you engage what passes for your brain before typing that shit, coward? A vote is only a victory if your guy happens to win. If he loses, you have achieved nothing beyond patting yourself on the back for caring - but caring doesn't change anything.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Thursday December 10 2015, @08:01AM
The endless focus on winning ensures that nothing changes and the inevitable cycle of the GOP proposing crazy shit, and the DNC then making it the new normal, goes on and on. At some point though, "either" can implode and disappear and that's when it would be nice to have some other party waiting in the wings to pounce.
There's also the spoiling possibility which has the potential to make to the status quo listen a little bit if it thinks it could actually lose.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by urza9814 on Thursday December 10 2015, @06:09PM
The way things are going, I'm currently expecting the GOP will implode sometime in the next decade or so, but the new party might just be a wing of the DNC. Clinton/Obama types become the new conservative party, and Sanders/Warren types become the new liberals.
Trump is currently the GOP front-runner, and last I saw, Sanders polls better than he does. So it seems possible at least. Certainly seems more likely than the Greens or Libertarians. Although I suppose we can't have two Democratic Partys, so one of the current minor parties might get co-opted or something.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Thursday December 10 2015, @08:03AM
Yeah, almost nobody votes for those those parties because they have no chance to win.
Those parties have no chance to win because almost nobody votes for them.
Do you notice something?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by massa on Thursday December 10 2015, @02:39PM
It does change more than not caring.