Thursday, December 10, 2015

Now, Trump Wants to "Close the Internet"; 'Freedom of Speech People Are Foolish People'

Donald Trump is one dangerous dude. He is kind of the anti-Hayek. Whereas Hayek recognized that knowledge was dispersed throughout society and thus successful central planning is impossible, Trump seems to hold the view that all the world needs is his magic touch to plan anything.

On Monday, Trump said he wants to talk to that crony elitist Bill Gates about "closing that Internet up in some way" in order to prevent Islamic terrorist group ISIS from recruiting kids, reports ARStechnica.

He said:
We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet and 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, maybe in certain areas closing that Internet up in some way.
Somebody will say, 'oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people… we've got to maybe do something with the Internet because they are recruiting by the thousands, they are leaving our country and then when they come back, we take them back.

Does anyone think for a minute that Trump as president would stop his totalitarian leanings with just Mexicans and Muslims, as if that isn't bad enough?

-RW

10 comments:

  1. Yikes, he certainly is one dangerous man.

    At the same time though, Hillary basically said the same thing a few years ago, “We’re all going to have to rethink how we deal with the Internet. As exciting as these new developments are, there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function…”

    http://libertarianstandard.com/2011/12/06/down-with-gatekeepers-hillary-clinton-and-the-obama-administration-vs-internet-freedom/#fn9-9980

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    1. The difference is that Trump would be much more effective in rallying people to his interventions. They are all bad. Trump is just a more skillful demagogue.

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    2. Yes he is a more skillful demagogue perhaps his experience in the entertainment industry has helped. But since no president has followed through on his campaign promises once elected, why is this any different? The man is about gaining power to enrich himself and his crony friends. He's not a game changer he's just going to continue to push the US down the road to serfdom we are already on. Slowing this trend is a waste of time as von Mises himself discovered in Austria.

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  2. The chains of tyranny will be wrapped around our necks no matter who wins the Emperor's crown this next November, and we will all most certainly be drowned in a sea of death, debt, and destruction to sate the most fevered desire of the state.

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    1. Agree with your statement Switchblade but would replace the last word with "people."

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    2. Agree with you Brian. I used to say the only difference between an R and D is the lies they tell us. Now I say the only difference between an R and a D is the lies we demand they tell us.

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    3. @Brian - I'm with Switchblade. I think the majority of people are naive and incapable of perceiving the enormity of the scheme. Not actually malevolent. Their natural human weaknesses have been systematically exploited to turn them into zombies ferociously clamoring for their own enslavement. Jim Jones style.

      @Mic - Well expressed.

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  3. Sadly these facts don't matter to his supporters, they simply dismiss you as a "secret liberal", a cuckservative, etc. To top of all that these are the same people who correctly complain on how the left wants to silent speech.

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  4. Those thinking Trump is some kind of savior with the willingness to do whatever it takes to "save the people from peril" are exactly the same as 1930's supporters of Hitler and Mussolini. Those who do not learn from history just repeat it. Here we go again.

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    1. Exactly, the support for Sanders and Trump reeks of the support Hitler and Mussolini got early on

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