When it comes to political theater these days, there’s no lack of boneheaded ideas backed by deliberately misleading statements (aka lying) and topped with a heaping helping of fearmongering.
Presidential candidates at this week’s debate were falling over each other in their rush to embrace bad policies, from dismantling the Internet to banning encryption and restarting NSA phone surveillance (not that it’s needed).
Internet ignorance
Let’s start with Donald Trump, who gave social media a field day with his childlike premise that the Internet can be shut off like a light switch. “ISIS is recruiting through the Internet. ISIS is using the Internet better than we are using the Internet, and it was our idea,” Trump said. “I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.”
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