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The presidential hopeful has been getting lots of attention for his call to prevent Muslims from entering the United States but another of his recent ideas involves shutting down the Internet, as a way to thwart ISIS recruitment tactics.

"People will say, 'oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech..' these are foolish people," Trump said during a recent speech. "We've got to maybe do something with the Internet because they are recruiting by the thousands."

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