Donald Trump said Tuesday he would “certainly be open” to closing down parts of the Internet used by the Islamic State to recruit Americans and spread anti-Western propaganda.
After attempting to dodge a question on whether closing up the Internet in certain places would “put the U.S. in line with China and North Korea,” the self-funded billionaire conceded that he didn’t take issue with it.
“I don’t want [terror groups] using our Internet to take our young and impressionable youth,” Trump said.
“I would certainly be open to closing certain areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don’t want to let people who want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet,” he added.
Trump also said he would enlist the help of “brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places to figure out” how radical Islamic terrorists are using the internet to their benefit.
“ISIS is using the Internet better than we are using the Internet and it was our idea,” he said. “[We should] first be using our brilliant people to figure a way for ISIS to not use the Internet and second, we would be able to penetrate the Internet and figure out who ISIS is and everything about ISIS.
“We can do that … if we use our good people,” he added.
