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Related: About this forumHow is Trump planning to shut down the internet?
I just tuned in...maybe I did not hear correctly?
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How is Trump planning to shut down the internet? (Original Post)
HipChick
Aug 2016
OP
All those young men in the alt-right won't give up their child porn easily.
bluestateguy
Aug 2016
#12
Exilednight
(9,359 posts)1. Presidents do have a way to shut it down in emergency situations.
There are multiple imternets. The President can order any one of them shut down in a state of emergency.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)2. I'm sure he'll tweet his demands.
That should do it, don't you think?
ReformedGOPer
(478 posts)3. He's only going to
shut it down for isis. So everybody else is safe.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)4. He's going to have Bill Gates push the red button on the Internet.
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)5. I think there's a switch on the back of the internet.
It just says ON/OFF.
It's simply, really.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)6. DuZy
Codeine
(25,586 posts)7. He may need to unplug it for ten seconds,
then plug it back in and tell us how many lights are showing on the front of the Internet.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)8. ...............
Codeine
(25,586 posts)9. "It goes on top of Big Ben.
That's where it gets the best reception."
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)16. LOL! Right next to the earth sized magnet. Never can be too careful.
oasis
(49,387 posts)10. A CNN panelist said it would hamper the efforts of anti-terror
agencies who need to gather intelligence on our enemies.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)11. Again...tells me he has no clue
Neither the person that wrote the speech...
Native
(5,942 posts)14. I am so dying to know who or what was responsible for that speech.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)17. Does he think that he's the first person that's ever thought of this?
He's a useful idiot.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)12. All those young men in the alt-right won't give up their child porn easily.
nt
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)13. Can't he just break the glass
on the series of intertubes?
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)15. Easy peasy. Just pull the damn plug. We just have to find that damn plug!
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)18. Bury it in bullshit
TeamPooka
(24,226 posts)19. He'll turn off his phone. nt
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)20. Pinch the tube, the letters and pictures will back up and explode.