sopa being passed so what does this all mean for the future of internet freedom in america while josh harkin's a reporter for mother jones magazine joins me now to deeper into this thanks for coming on the show josh so i understand you talked to some of the anonymous hackers in the chat rooms while this was all going down tog give us kind of the inside scoop on what was happening. well it was just sitting and watch it unfold in real time i mean you know there are dolls and people all over the world who participate in these chat rooms when i was there i was in this chat room for this anonymous splinter group known and it's in on ops where i think at any given time there were between a thousand and two thousand people who were logged in and coordinating with each other to launch these denial of service attacks or g.o.'s attacks on various websites around the country and they were giving each other updates particularly about the f.b.i. website which i think was their main target and you know people were were messaging that it was down in hungary or it was done in belgium or it was young malaysia

those are porter from mother jones magazine josh harkin said. well three years ago today the world watched president obama get inaugurated and the office many saw it as a possible turning point and now merged by his promises of hope and change to sear the country in a new direction but here we are today and some are wondering what happened to that change they were promised and as election season is underway are americans now ready for a radical change in this take that question to the streets of the big apple. this year the u.s. has the opportunity to elect a new president are they ready for radical change this week let's talk about that i think they need to give obama a chance to to go along with what he's doing i think. i think a lot of americans are a little bit impatient. do you think change is happening just very slowly and i think this also because of the economic crisis going on so you have to give it some time to changing that much i just don't think it's realistic at all we don't move that quickly it's not the way our system works i thi