the US, Mr Trump dismissed claims that 'closing up the internet' would
be a freedom of speech issue
Donald Trump has called for the internet to be turned off so that
children can no longer use it.
The presidential hopeful said that "We've got to maybe do something
with the internet," because it was being used to radicalise people. He
said that he would "see Bill Gates" so that he could look into
"closing it up".
Speaking at the same event where he called for a "complete shutdown"
on Muslims entering the US, Mr Trump laid out a rough plan for
stopping the influence of Isis.
Children in America are "watching the internet and they want to be
masterminds", Trump said in a speech.
"We're losing a lot of people because of the internet," Trump said.
"We have to 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 ways. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech,
freedom of speech.' These are foolish people."
The rest of Mr Trump's speech went on to criticise the "incompetence"
of the "stupid people" that are currently in power in the US.
"We used to call it the quiet majority," he said of his own
supporters. "But people are fed up – they are fed up with
incompetence, they are fed up with stupid leaders, they are fed up
with stupid people."
Mr Trump was speaking at a campaign rally on the Second World War
aircraft carrier the USS Yorktown in South Carolina. The speech came
as polls showed that his frontrunner status was being threatened by
Ted Cruz, who was shown to be five percentage points ahead of Mr Trump
by a Monmouth poll just before the event.
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