Donald Trump wants to ‘close that internet,’ says he will ask Bill Gates for Help

We'll set up a TELEX feed, maybe a phone-in service. Or fax. Might be a little different to what you're used to, but I'm sure we'll manage.

i am kind of being serious, as this is my only means of communication with ppl a similar age i would miss it if it went
fax sounds good tho although idk what a telelex is

I think Donald Trump is a real-world example of a troll.

No offense OP but can everyone please stop talking about Trump. He is a puppet (albiet a smart one). The less attention we give him, the more likely he is to ebb away......

Donald Trump is just a troll, nothing more

how do I delete this post

It is really not difficult to achieve. Get major search providers to delist controversial content, monitor visitors of known darknet sites and use AI algorithms to sift through the rest. The UK already does this, and most countries do it for commercial laws.

The internet is not some untameable beast. The few countries which allow anonymous site registering can be easily pressured - one by one they have been.

TOR nodes are run by Western governments to help destabilise noncompliant governments.

The Internet is simultaneously a great tool of learning and potential ideological insurrection and a great way to monitor the population and keep it in line. In the worst case martial law scenario, it can simply be shut down or converted into local intranets.

The reason so many people think Donald Trump is stupid is because they know very little of the world. Bill Gates is intimately connected to the security services and pretty much the entire computer world. Trump is just referring to him out of ease and, probably, because he knows him.

I like the sound of this-You seem to know a lot about it.

Donald Trump is not unintelligent or uneducated.

Rather, he's trying to get votes from a stratum of people in the US who are unintelligent and uneducated (because in a democracy, their vote counts just as much as anyone else's). So it's his job to say things in such a way that they will relate to him, and express opinions that he thinks they will agree with, thus being swayed towards voting for him.

The average redneck probably does think that Bill Gates has the power to "close the internet". If Donald Trump wants their vote, he's got to try and say things in a way that isn't going to confuse them or contradict their preconceived notions. It's one of the big flaws within a democratic system


I find it interesting that he uses the slogan "Make America Great Again", implying that it isn't already great. This trick is used by politicians in developed countries all over the world to appeal to people who are poor, uneducated, feeling hard done by and generally left behind in the rat race, because they're the ones most likely to think that things aren't going that great right now. But they're also the ones for whom politicians really have to dumb themselves down, the way Donald Trump is doing.