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Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the shut-it-down dept.

Patrick O'Neill writes: Hours after Donald Trump suggested the U.S. ban Muslims from entering the United States, the leading Republican presidential candidate said America should also consider "closing the Internet up in some way" to fight Islamic State terrorists in cyberspace. Trump mocked anyone who would object that his plan might violate the freedom of speech, saying "these are foolish people, we have a lot of foolish people ... We have to go see Bill Gates," Trump said, to better understand the Internet and then possibly "close it up."

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  1. Google is probably a bigger threat. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Meanwhile Eric Schmidt proposes a ContentID-like system to suppress "hate speech".

    Pick your poison, left or right, up or down, makes no difference.

  2. Re: Oh the Irony..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    These happened yesterday:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/26/were-now-averaging-more-than-one-mass-shooting-per-day-in-2015/

    You don't hear about them every day for the same reason that you don't usually hear about car crashes on the national news;
    it's so common that it's not news-worthy unless a muslim is involved.

  3. Re:Godwin by Nidi62 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why do you love Islam and hate Nazism? It is because Islam originate from brown peoples and therefore you need to prove the world you are not racist? You know that both ideologies are racist, hateful and violent?

    Uh, Islam is most explicitly NOT racist. The Ummah encompasses all Muslims throughout the world and does not care what race or ethnicity you are. You do realize the most populous Muslim nation isn't even "brown", right? It's Indonesia, and 62% of all Muslims live in South and Southeast Asia. Even better, and this will really blow your confused little mind, is that in ISIS(and in al-Qaeda,and the Taliban) some of the most feared fighters are actually of European descent!

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  4. Re: Oh the Irony..... by ranton · · Score: 3, Informative

    Every day, huh? What mass shooting happened yesterday?
    It only feels like everyday, but shootings have gone down dramatically each decade.

    Apparently it really depends on your definition of mass shootings. By the most broad definition I could find (4 or more people shot in a single incident) there were 353 mass shootings in the US in 2015 by November 23rd. So about one per day on average.

    By the most narrow definition I could find (a single non-gang, robbery, or domestic violence incident where 4 or more people die), there were 4 mass shootings in the US in 2015 by November 23rd. With the same definition but replace death with just being shot, the number goes up to 61.

    The incidents people actually think about when they hear mass shootings probably lies closer to the 61 figure. Which means about 5-6 mass shootings per month.

    source

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