Move over, Ted Stevens, your infamous "series of tubes" understanding of the Internet has been topped by Donald Trump, who said in Tuesday night's debate that the Internet is "ours" and he'll shut part of it off to ISIS.
When explicitly asked if he would take similar steps as repressive governments in China and North Korea to censor the internet, Trump said he would seal off the internet from places at war with America, since the internet was "our idea."
"I don't want them using our internet to take our young impressionable youth," Trump explained.
"So, are you open to closing parts of the internet?" CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked.
"I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody," Trump said. "I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our internet. Yes, sir. I am."
So he'll build a big wall, just like on the border, to keep people off of "our" Internet. Or maybe he'll clog up the tubes. Or change the WiFi password so ISIS can't get on. (And how much do you want to bet that all of Trump's passwords are "password"?)
But no worries, because he'll get "our good people" in Silicon Valley to "penetrate the Internet" and find out where the bad guys are. Gee, why didn’t we think of that already? Life is so easy in Trumpland.