well here in the u.s. it's independence day as americans celebrate their freedom with food fun and fireworks do they realize their internet freedoms are at risk r t asks is it time for a declaration of internet freedoms. and have you heard of the trans-pacific partnership it's a top secret trade agreement the u.s. and a pacific rim nations are going to go shooting in california and it could have wide ranging up backs on internet freedom trade and health care just to name a few so is this trade agreement actually now to on steroids we explored. merchant in general if you're young girls little old with somebody for your. beautiful people who want to travel through yes you heard him correctly it's ok to accept

free travel but only if you're hot are to look deeper into the world of the bold and the beautiful. it's tuesday june third five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . well our fundamental rights are mapped out in the bill of rights but in this modern world is it time to adopt an internet bill of rights many internet leaders think so a group of all mine advocates are calling on elected officials to sign the document it's pretty simple the bill of rights hones in on five key rights we need to fight to keep the internet they are expression don't censor the internet access openness innovation and privacy that is. to protect privacy and defend everyone's ability to control how their data and devices are used now the group that came up with this

banded together in opposition of sopa and pipa to internet bills critics say strip citizens of some of these rights on the internet but we are seeing bill after bill come out that aims to in one way or another regulate the internet so is this a fight internet advocates can win earlier i was joined by josh levy internet campaign director for free press and i asked him why this was such an important issue for free press take a listen. everybody has been working on internet freedom issues for years and we've been involved in the movement to protect the open internet. since there's ever been a movement so this work on the declaration of internet freedom is kind of at the core of what free press does what our mission is all right i want to read a preamble to this internet bill of rights of states quote we believe that a free and open internet can bring about a better world keep the internet free and open we call on communities industries

and countries to recognize these principles we believe that they will help to bring about more creative a more innovation and more open society so tell us more about these organizations that have come on board to support this internet bill of rights. and ultimately i know that you want to get lawmakers on board with this do you think they'll be able to achieve that. down to the first question we have an amazingly diverse range of organizations companies and prominent activists academics journalists and other individuals who come on board here so is everybody from start. to run web site like red reddit to organizations like the american civil liberties union and amnesty international two prominent academics like you i think are out of our jonathan zittrain out of harvard and others it's an amazingly.

erudite group but it's also a group that spans the breath of all internet users as the collective group represents millions of people and differing opinions from the right and the left from the center. we think because we're building such a broad movement here and we're inviting so much public interaction with the doctor we're releasing this document to the public to say do what you want with this remakes this document edit it comment on it share it but just engage with this conversation with this process we think by doing this we're going to build a movement of many millions of people who instead of just fighting back against all the bad things can actually do something proactive for the open internet lawmakers will be listening when we go to members of congress his office later this summer to sign on to the declaration if we have the will of millions of people behind us i think members of congress will have no choice but to listen how they've been

receptive so far. handful of members of congress who have engaged with this issue recently ever since the fighting stopped. the two bills that were meant by copyright infringement but were ultimately going to harm the open internet and so representative example senator ron wyden is an example of two members of congress who have been coming forward with their own suggestions for similar principles so i have no doubt that they and others will be very receptive to what we released in the very least gaijin a conversation with us about them. do you think it's going to be a tough fight i mean considering you're kind of up against lobbyist and special interest groups for example the motion picture association they were big advocates for. do you think it's going to be a pretty tough battle to fight. freedom has always been taught and always will be

we're dealing with in trenches interests here we're dealing with. a lab or a should between public and private interest. and it's always going to be an uphill battle but. when you have millions of people saying no to something there's nothing more powerful than that and no matter how much how many millions of dollars lobbyists in washington d.c. spend on their own pain to secure corporate friendly policies that pales in comparison to what millions of people can do when they all come together so that's the ultimate goal of this work. they were shot down thanks to activists like you that took a stand against. the legislation people called. things like fight another. regulate the internet in one form or another so i mean can we just expect more of like this coming out. in the short term i think that we can unfortunately

and will do everything that we can do to stop them and there are multiple good efforts going on right now to make sure that internet activists can respond to threats is a curse. but the aim of this campaign is to in the long term whole our lawmakers and the their friends who run internet service providers and cable companies to hold them accountable and to make clear that you can start writing policy and pushing policy that affect the internet without bringing internet users to the table from the beginning. and then if we continually show our presence and that we are willing to to to do everything that we can to stop their efforts if they don't involve us i think going forward they will have to involve us because we will be established as a political constituency all right sound so there is this fight to protect online freedom and we're hearing about these bell very controversial bills like. the what

bills. to protect internet privacy do those exist and if they do why don't we hear about them. those exist they're often introduced by members of congress you don't always hear much about them they don't always go very far but they do exist and i would say in the future they can exist in the goal of the groups that came together to to push out this declaration and to help draft the declaration not everybody agrees on what internet policy should look like and that's good that we live in a democracy and there is disagreement and there is a lot of discussion but i think we all agree on what the goal of internet policy should be and those are embodied in the principles that we really things like access to information and free expression. so i think that the goal of the declaration is to inspire good policy it's not to save. any policies that necessarily but it does inspire good policy and to say all right if you're going to

put forward a bill that affect the internet let's make sure that it protects the privacy of internet users but let's make sure that it doesn't stamp on our ability to speak online so i suspect the especially as we have more and more momentum around the separation and more users signing onto the declaration more momentum behind these these better bills and we'll hear more about them as well all right so. i mean their fact that everybody internet is playing such a role and and our day to day lives would you agree that internet freedom is now a nonpartisan issue something that members on both sides of the political spectrum can agree on absolutely and i think nonpartisan is the right word for it instead of bipartisan. supersede politics you know the internet as you said is this essential . binding platform that we all connect to and it shouldn't

be. a political plaything of one side or the other and that's why you see both in the bad bills you see bipartisan support for those bipartisan support for the good bill so it kind of transcends politics in a chance and partisanship for better or worse and we're trying to take advantage of that by showing the enormous threat of support that we have for these principles it's everybody from you know we just got a sign on to our declaration from like the melon growers association of america and you have them but then you also have been known by a lot of people as the father of the internet so this affects everybody from the very least in our society to ordinary working class and middle class americans and . it's not a political plaything it's but it is political. one thing that we're trying to show to people is that if you want to see the open internet thriving to be

a force in your life you have to protect it because it's a fragile thing all right well it sounds like you're attracting people from all walks of life to this cause josh leslie i want to ask you you know what is. the thing that internet freedom is going to be an important election issue i think that some people make it so. you know there are live issues out there and i think some of our friends are intending to raise the volume on this specific issue especially in certain parts of the country my big hope is that it stays a big issue after november and that it becomes. an issue that members of congress when they're sworn into the hundred thirteenth congress and in january feel like they have to deal with in a proactive way because of all the messaging going on over the course of this year all right just. because you're fighting affects everybody uses the internet thank

you so much for coming on the show i was just leaving the internet campaign director for free press speaking of internet freedom to wiki leaks founder julian assange remains held up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london as he waits to hear about his asylum bed last week british police demanded that he reports to a london police station for the first step of extradition to sweden he's wanted their own sex crime allegations but it is not going anywhere his spokesperson says he's waiting to hear on the asylum plea to show airs here on ars he and today is the last episode a song spoke about the conditions he's been living under since sweden began trying to extradite him months ago take a lock. us grand jury which is being investigated. and. at the same time. i have

a case in the supreme court here in great britain which used to be the house of lords. and if you live if i'm not successful then i will be extradited to sweden imprisoned immediately without charge i have not been charged . in any country and then they go to a sex trial or not maybe that would drop it but they refused to come over here to to interview me to ask questions we offered to do this by phone to go this week jim to see their huge to do this instead they demanded exadata me to ask questions without any charge and this is the situation i have been in now under house arrest i have electronic. medical that around my leg to report my location so. it's a bit grim but on the other hand i do have

a platform you know it it does give me to a degree. a platform and this process comes out of. the legislation in europe in response to nine eleven so this particular thing that i'm trapped under came about as a result of. european police departments and government saying we must have a way to quickly take terrorists from one european country to another to people and we'll continue to follow the us on to silent bed and the twists and turns in the case and by the way julian assad is celebrating his forty first birthday today. well it's being called nafta on steroids an international trade agreement brewing between nine countries has been stirring controversy on capitol hill that's because the talks are being held in complete secrecy and the thirteenth round of negotiations starts today in san diego the transpacific partnership is a trade agreement between the chile australia new zealand and the united states

among other countries critics say it will compromise food safety create monopolistic drug patents which will lead to more expensive medicine allow millions of american jobs to be off shored cause financial deregulation and impede net neutrality now with so much at stake for the american people why are the talks being held behind closed doors joining me now is michael but no no from yes mad hi there mike so what is the the big secret. well it's like any of these trade negotiations is being pushed through by the corporations essentially and their meetings in the government and they would rather the public don't know because the public suffers when these kinds of negotiations are made so you're saying it's likely about what they are talking about isn't going to be very popular . yeah it's not popular to offshore jobs for example that's

a big no no even and even in the united states right now it's not popular to promote g.m.o. goods in a lot of places i think it's also not popular right now to rollback you know regulations on the financial industry in wall street and doing things right now like prohibiting bans on risky financial services which the tepee negotiations are attempting to do is absurd i mean most people out there are actually feeling the pressure a series of risky financial negotiations over the last you know decade and more and so i think that yes it's really very unpopular and that's why they would rather do it without any public input now today is the third round of negotiations they began today and yes they are behind closed doors but what do we know about the negotiations that have happened thus far. well we know that there are major

corporations like pfizer pushing for new regulatory regulations that would allow them to open up markets to their drugs and outlaw. some of the you know give them a longer patent so that they could withhold lifesaving drugs from people for a longer we know that there are things like offshoring jobs that they have in the agreements thus far we know that they're planning to institute sopa like regulations and i know on your program we just heard from somebody who's concerned about internet freedoms well blocking the t.p. or stopping the t.v. people should be something at the front lines of that because if these negotiations in san diego this week go through it's the final round and the obama administration would like to sign this before he goes into office you know before the election season now some are call are going as far as calling bass one aft on

steroids i would you do think that's a fair comparison. well it's one way of describing it i mean i think you know all of these. trade negotiations of the last really two and a half decades that have been pushing for these continued liberalization of markets continue what they call free markets but really has become about just pushing whatever regulations will help corporations help the big corporations this isn't about helping everybody do business around the world this is about helping the biggest corporations make bigger profits it's really just to another way of privatizing public space and public services that we said led to that congress is also concerned about this and they are taking steps to try to bring some of the things that are transpiring in these meetings to light. like wife a couple be so worried about the experience secrecy surrounding these meetings.

well i think people should be acting to try to stop anything that is that secretive the government is is allowing let's say negotiations like this to happen without the public knowing there's a problem right it's this is not what democracy is about democracy in order for citizens to act we have to know what the contents of the agreements are we why not just put them on web cams let us see what they're talking about and then they would be really important for us to feel like we actually had a democracy here instead of what we seem to have which is. something else it's corporatocracy and this is speaking of that you know the decisions that are made in this these this trade and they have major implications for small business as you know and other citizens and they're basically left in the dark there they have no input on what goes on here so what is the danger in that. well i think the danger

is that you know all of these regulations sneak up on us right like they make a decision like this so go like regulation that they allowed to be implemented across borders and then according to this agreement that they're trying to push through it's going to allow companies to actually sue sovereign states so if a company decides that they don't like a regulation or a law in a country they can go and override that law by fall filing a suit that's one of the ways in which it undermines our sovereignty every every one side and use one of these nations the signature on the so i think i mean overall it's it comes back down to this problem of how democracy should function and what we should expect of our governments and you know especially now with the obama administration i think many many people had expected more transparency than what we're getting. and so you know we have a very very important story some are calling best you know one of the most

important in our expansive trade ideas avar negotiated but if largely ignored or unreported by the media why is that well i think that it's just not very sexy. you know it's it's another trade negotiation i mean there was the same problems i think with a lot of the regulations that were being pushed through the world trade organization in the ninety's and early two thousand but you know once enough people knew about it they rose up and eventually froze as negotiations in their tracks over a series of many years there are people gathering to try to block this to try to get more public attention for it in san diego right now where the last round of negotiations are happening there are groups like stop t p p or two that are actually rallying people and protesting so i say there is a growing awareness of this. there is a growing awareness of it i think that you know the more people find out in the

more that they find out how it will impact them. the more that there will be protests unfortunately they've really been able to slip this one under the radar of most americans and most people around the world in part because there isn't much editor of the prerogative to cover something like this when there's massacres in other places in the world editors aren't going to be that excited about putting you know this on the front pages of their papers but this should be on the front pages of the papers because this is the kind of thing that results in the social inequality and the environmental problems that eventually lead to that kind of violence so this is one of these things at the root of our problems and it should be being addressed and it should be public that is sounds like there is a lot of things at stake for the public i mean and i you know we're in the thirteenth round of negotiations today but for those that are concerned and want to take a stance and want to know what is happening behind closed doors anything the average

average citizen can do. well the average citizen can can go to for example the website of the organization public citizen and they can find out their how to act against the t p p they can also go to stop p.p.p. dot org and they can work there they can educate themselves first of all on what's going on and they can also try to put pressure on the obama administration to do something about this instead of simply pushing it through right now there are a number of congresspeople in the united states who are beginning to rebel against this i think sixty seven of them signed a letter. urging president obama to do something about it i mean that's a fairly large number of congress people trying to put pressure on obama to start to break with his you know corporate. benefactors so hopefully people can find out who their congressperson is put pressure on them as well right mike thanks so much

for coming on the sailing away and on this very important that was mike but now now after the yes ma'am. thank you well the group of men known as the nato three have pled not guilty to terrorism charges days before the summit even began in chicago back in may three men were arrested for allegedly plotting to fire bomb president obama's campaign headquarters and other targets across the city and these are those three men twenty two year old brian church twenty seven year old jared chase and twenty four year old brant vinson betterly some of the charges against them are under anti-terrorism statutes that have never been used before police say they found written plans for assembling pipe bombs and confiscated a mortar gun swords a crossbow a throwing knife ninja knives among other weapons but police have admitted that the group was infiltrated by undercover agents well before the men made it to chicago but the defense accuses police of entrapping the men and encouraging them and

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gathering for the occupy movement. sounds like you have a great show to look forward to that's coming up in just a half an hour thanks for that update a lot of that's going to do it for the news from the stories we covered you can check out our youtube channel it's youtube dot com slash america we post everything online in full there on our youtube channel or you can check out our website it's our teeth dot com slash usa web team is busy working away on all kinds of stories that we don't have time to get you on the air you can also follow me on twitter at liz wall the a lot of shows up in a half hour we will be right back here at seven. o'clock in the alona so you'll get the real headlines with none the less the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories.