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Rose Siding

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Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:14 AM Dec 2015

Trump Says He'll Talk to Bill Gates About 'Closing that Internet Up'

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump just said the US should consider "closing up" the internet to curb radical extremism. Trump, a man that routinely claims everyone in charge of the US is stupid, believes that as president he could just call up Bill Gates to help him shut off the internet. Trump floated the idea at a campaign rally at the USS Yorktown in South Carolina tonight as a way to stop ISIS "jihadists" from recruiting Americans to commit acts of domestic terrorism....

"We're losing a lot of people because of the internet," Trump said. "We have to 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 ways. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people."

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/7/9869308/donald-trump-close-up-the-internet-bill-gates


Like you, I'm sick of hearing about him and talking about him. I also believe he's the kind of person you have to keep an eye on.
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Trump Says He'll Talk to Bill Gates About 'Closing that Internet Up' (Original Post) Rose Siding Dec 2015 OP
Under a Trump Presidency, the internet will be limited to porn and gun sales. Scuba Dec 2015 #1
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