Morning my friends!
Normally when I'm in Mexico I never watch television, I do not even have a TV, I prefer to choose what I want to watch on the internet and I actually use the Internet for many things, watch a good documentary, a movie, read articles of my interest, write in steemit, etc. But well now that I'm in the USA, I can not avoid waking up and watching the news every morning, because over here the people are super close to this device, in fact they have more than 500 channels to choose from (of which my favorites at the moment are History, HGTV, Sports, Movies).
But well I was watching the news this morning, I have to say that I have something against the news because you never know if what they say is real or not, for example here in America they always have two sides of the coin, a news channel says one thing and another channel says another, so in reality they keep everyone very confused so that's why I truly believe that everything is being planned to be this way. Anyways that is another subject of which I will speak later.
This morning the news were talking about that Donald Trump wants to censor the internet!! But for what purpose? I will comment below.
“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 want to get the brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places and figure out a way that ISIS can’t do what they’re doing.”
“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 about, 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 have a lot of foolish people.”
Wise words from the president of America. But what did he say? Because if you ask me he does say something be at the same time he doesn't say nothing, I don't think I've heard a good speech from him.
In reality, he wants to censor parts of the internet as a strategy to combat terrorism. But is this the real reason or does he wants to deprive us of free speech?
Once again Trump has used fear, control strategy, as an excuse to suggest that a cut in freedom is normal. And the most crazy thing is that there are people who support him, people who do not use their brains to question what would happen if that order were implemented.
It is hard to believe that a country like the United States, which prides itself on its democracy and its freedoms, is taking more a path towards a dictatorship, as is the case in North Korea.
Although I do believe that there is more people joining military groups because for what they see or read on internet so what it would be good is to cut violence off internet, those videos that are so graphic and are full of unhealthy content. Another good strategy is stop the war America is being involved with and make Peace, I know this is so hard to do because so many intereses and also a lot of natural gas involve tho, but well this is what I think.
What is your reaction about this issue?
I share with you what the CEO of Amazon thinks about it ...
One of the reactions to this idea was the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who indicated through his Twitter account that "the best thing would be to send Trump to space in one of the company's rockets, presumably with a one way ticket".
And even knowing the idea of
blocking the internet is not out of place, since places like China, Egypt and North Korea have made this possible.
Is it possible to block the internet in the United States?
"Blocking" the internet completely in certain areas would be an impossible task. In the United States, for example, it would require companies such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, AT & T, Sprint and T-Mobile, among others, to turn off their cell towers and fiber optic networks and restrict satellite access to the population. A CNN report also recalls that the US government can not block the service in foreign countries.
Also remember that this order is still in process nothing is sure yet, we will see what happens these days, I keep you updated.
If you want to know more about the subject, I leave here some links from which I got more information.
LINKS
http://time.com/4150891/republican-debate-donald-trump-internet/
https://www.cnet.com/news/president-donald-trump-internet-cut-off-for-terrorists/
To be honest, it seems like the good people of US are pretty familiar with constraining their freedoms due to "terrorism". PATRIOT act is probably just one of the examples.
I do not believe that censorship of the internet (or any other medium) could lead to anything positive. This is just another tool for the elites to stay in power and control the masses. It is a known method to give the public something to fear and they will hand over their freedom just for the mere illusion of security.
I agree the American people too often give up freedom for the illusion of safety. instead of taking our freedom why doesn't the government deal with the people causing the issues. can't they send them a virus or do something the wreck their equipment. It seems that the government can trace internet chatter when they want to.
They have the power to deal with the issues in different ways but obviously this is just a way for then to do what it is in their plan and have more control over the people.
I don't think they will be able to censor the Internet, but if they did...blockchain technology would be developed to create a decentralized internet. Substratum is one I can think of off the top of my head.
When I knew about this Steemit came into my mind. A decentralized internet sounds like a really good idea.
✘🐑They will banned apple because ISIS members eat apples. And they might ask to boycott apple devices. ✘🐑
They are just trying to have 100% control of everything!