Donald Trump has a radical plan to try to prevent American citizens from being radicalized… turn off the Internet.
Trump shocked the world with his proposal to ban all Muslims, in which he suggested a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Besides the idea being extremely biased, it’s illegal as well, violating the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Now the Republican presidential candidate has another proposal that sounds like it would also violate free speech and the First Amendment.
On Monday, Trump had a bold idea on how to combat ISIS propaganda:
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.
Children in America are “watching the Internet and they want to be masterminds,” Trump said while speaking at a campaign rally on the World War II aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Yorktown docked in Charleston, South Carolina.
Trump continued, “Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people.”
Trump wants to enlist the co-founder of Microsoft to create an Internet kill switch. Ironically, the idea sounds like something that Trump’s favorite country, China, already does by censoring outside ideas coming into the Communist nation.
According to a Monmouth University survey of Iowa Republicans that was released on Monday, Ted Cruz has overtaken Donald Trump in Iowa. Cruz currently holds 24 percent support compared to Trump who has 19 percent.