of web site one more time. it's press freedom foundation dot org press freedom foundation dot org certainly there is a renaissance of citizen journalism and new media that we need to protect those freedoms online one of the things we can do thanks a lot for your time thanks a lot. i. now want to talk to about an ordinary guy doing extraordinary things his name is josh bagley and he's a graduate student and why you who's making waves in the digital world all to bring attention to us military tactic that's going by and large undetected drones i've covered on the show before but josh bagley is the brainchild behind this novel idea it's called drone plus a new i phone app that would sort public data from the bureau of investigative journalism about u.s. attacks and translated into a user friendly map that actually notifies users every time a new strike occurs begley said that he wanted to do this because drones quote bring up all sorts of interesting questions about the intersection of technology in international law and human rights your credit chain of command deciding to execute people outside of any laws a very i

a new organization has been a form called the freedom of the press foundation to help me talk more about this organization and what you can do to support transparency i'm joined now by the co-founder and executive director of the freedom of the press foundation and a member of the electronic frontier foundation trevor ten thank you so much for coming on. thanks for having me all right so trevor tell us more about how this organization came into fruition. sure so i think a bunch of us were talking about eight or ten months ago about what we could do to kind of stop the financial blockade that was implemented against wiki leaks so if you remember back in two thousand and ten you know after the us couldn't have gone to court to censor wiki leaks because of the pentagon papers case forty years ago where the supreme court said that you know if this information is in the public interest the newspaper publishes it even if it's secret then they can't it can't be censored so instead a couple congressmen went to various corporations and got them to cut off them cut off from their financial support

the website the lack of funds eventually caused the site to suspend publication now the freedom of press foundation has named three other groups will also be supporting mock rock news the national security archive as well as the uptake all of which promote transparency is behind the group. well the list includes known whistleblower daniel ellsberg actor and activist john cusack civil liberties liberties column is growing wheat greenwald and the electronic frontier foundation trevor tim who will serve as the organization's executive director you might remember him from his appearances right here on r.t. to express disappointment to the huffington post at the lack of support many major media outlets gave wiki leaks stating quote if this happened to one of the other papers visa or mastercard didn't allow people to take a subscription to the wall street journal there would be an uproar the freedom of press foundation is also practicing what it preaches it's making its operating costs transparent to donors and letting those who donate decide exactly where their money goes we're going to keep you posted

who are working for freedom of the press are any of them directly affiliated with wiki leaks or are these just completely independent organizations the fruit of the press. foundation dot org a supporting. it is that these are independent organizations and the foundation is independent for most of us will be on the board you have prominent members and probably individuals but i do care about transparency like daniel ellsberg the importance of blower who gave us the pentagon papers in the seventy's and indians are represented from the evidence when they go from here foundation and you have to john ku's like so there's an independent foundation it's. supporting in general the fight against corruption and its fight for transparency chris this is what the president obama did problems back in the days when he was elected in two thousand and eight. and that hasn't entirely fulfilled shall we say christine having said spank you so much for being with us tonight. thank you. it's the good the bad in the very very kind to a sense just slowly ugly the good senator barbara boxer senator boxer plans to create a clearing house on climate to help organize legislative efforts to a