before we do that, at the end of the last session, we had a compelling comment from alex jones. alex mentioned two things. one was the san francisco court judgment during the yelp case. there was another story wanted to mention. >> they are related. the other one was from china. the leading financial news organization of china has been charged by the chinese government with extorting money from prospective advertisers or clients or businesses in order to prevent or publish certain stories. in other words, the idea is they were extorting money and cooking their reports. that is illegal in china. they were charged with that. this is a great area for american journalism because it is true news organizations all over the country have long been seeking advertising from people they also cover. but you may not extort. you may not threaten. the issue for the web, it seems to me, is that there are laws that put limits on what news organizations can do in terms of their own reports. even in the first amendment environment, there are things you cannot do. the penalty for journalism for publ

before we do that, at the end of the last session, we had a compelling comment from alex jones. alex mentioned two things. one was the san francisco court judgment on -- during the yelp case. there was another story wanted to mention. >> they are related. the other one was from china. the leading financial news organization of china has been charged by the chinese government was extorting money from prospective advertisers or clients or businesses in order to prevent or publish certain stories. in other words, the idea is they were extorting money and cooking their reports. that is illegal in china. they were charged with that. this is a great area for american journalism because it is true news organizations all over the country have long been seeking advertising from people they also cover. but you may not extort. you may not threaten. the issue for the web, it seems to me, is that there are laws that put limits on what news organizations can do in terms of their own reports. even in the first amendment environment, there are things you cannot do. the penalty for journalism for

[laughter] >> alex jones, i am the director of the media center on public policy. couple of things in the news today that they're on this -- bear on this. one is the lawsuit against yelp in san francisco that charged yelp with shaking down advertisers and threatening them with lower rankings if they did not buy advertising. that was totally thrown out. yelp said we did not do it. but the point is the court said it does not matter whether you did it or not. you can do anything you please with that information. it turns the issue of a company's ownership of data and what they do with it and how they use it entirely into a first amendment issue. >> we have another panel coming up. are there things we could imagine companies subscribing to? maybe we don't need a law preventing it but something that would say we will never do it and sue us if we do. >> this decision, that is the argument and what the court bought. >> a company can make it so that they are suitable. they don't like it but they can. >> from yelp's perspective there is never amount of money a business coul

. >> alex jones, i am the director of the media center on public policy. a couple of things in the news today that bear on this. one is the lawsuit against yelp in san francisco that charged yelp with shaking down advertisers and threatening them with lower rankings if they did not buy advertising. that was totally thrown out. yelp said we did not do it. but the point is the court said it does not matter whether you did it or not. you can do anything you please with that information. it turns the issue of a company's ownership of data and what they do with it and how they use it entirely into a first amendment issue. >> we have another panel coming up. are there things we could imagine companies subscribing to? maybe we don't need a law preventing it but something that would say we will never do it and sue us if we do. >> this decision, that is the argument and what the court bought. >> a company can make it so that they are sueable. they don't like it but they can. >> from yelp's perspective there is never amount of money a business could pay to influence

caller: some people who have been political here is for me are alex jones, ron paul. people who really talk about issues. that's whether or not they are popular, they stood for what is right. __ was really an independent maverick. he has some interesting stuff, i have seen on youtube. that man was really for the people. someone else similar tried to get a movement going. bob dole was a good representative from california. there are people in there fighting for the people, and try to get issues addressed that keep our freedoms maintained. you know, the people who run up our taxes so high __ we will never be able to pay them. it is ridiculous __ the ball and chain they are putting on the people. few people speak against it, but they are lining their pockets, paying the lobbyist, devaluing our currency, and taking jobs over to third world countries. host: you mentioned ron paul. what you think of his son, rand? caller: he is pretty good. ron paul is better, but rand has some issues, he is a very smart man. he had a good filibuster going a while back. he is definitely a s

jones down 220. the nasdaq and s & p also down pretty big percentage wise. >>> peninsula is getting license plate readers. alexarlos where the controversial system will soon be in use. >> reporter: pam, good morning to you. soon carlos police will be using two automated license plate readers. one of them will be put on a patrol car. the other will be at a fixed location. here at the britain avenue onramp to highway 101. businesses in this particular area have seen a spike in robberies in recent years. that is why they chose this area. on monday night the city council gave the green light for the plate readers that correct information and store it for up to a year. police say that data can be invaluable when they are investigating crimes and also searching for missing people. critics though worry about privacy and the potential surveillance of innocent people. but the san carlos police chief says the information will not be misused. it's stored at a secure location. that would be the northern california regional and intelligence center. now one city council member opposed the technology during this week's vote.

alex. look all a all that footage there do we have him in the box with jerry jones. i saw yesterday evening he was defending his allegiance to the dallas cowboys. >> yes. >> everyone is still talking about it. the the governor, of course, celebrating with dallas owner jerry jones but he admitted he has been a loyal cowboys fans since he was a kid. >> sure. >> but's dressed it once again with a call into the sports radio show boomer and carton. he even talked about the sweater. >> lets deal with the red sweater these days. >> first of all, the sweater is orange. >> it looks red on tv. >> i know, i have heard that. >> what is up with the orange sweater, i'm thinking pumpkin what are we doing here. >> here's the thing, the first cowboy game i went to this year the and that is what i pick to wear. the as it turns out there are some people in my universe that believe that becomes a good luck thing. >> okay. >> i have warn it to every cowboys game i have been to this year. that was my fifth one last night and it has won all five. >> he didn't stop there. this is a pretty g

jones industrial average. shares of fallen 16%. that was from last year alone. everybody is putting to see what the plans are for 2015. i want to bring in alexast is already been cut. >> they want to see how they will get the transition accelerated. we've heard her talk about moving to the cloud. we are transforming this old company the usually based on hardware. last quarter she said it's not happening fast enough. we need to accelerate. profit roadmap that they had, that's me shares fell. they are looking for an outline of what she's going to get the company back on track. >> what is she going to do? >> she's reorganizing the company. she is basing it on cloud computing. that is what customers want. they have had some issues. in the third quarter, she said the software division is having sales issues. they were not executing heels they were trying to close. in services, they are having issues with productivity. that is bad for their margins. we are looking to see in the fourth quarter, did those problems continue? was she able to stop the bleeding? how exactly is she going to write this ship of 430,000 employees? >> others like hewlett-pac