it just kind of works and it's this decentralized magic that has has done so much for the sopa and pipa fight thus far the i i wouldn't put anything past them now is there still a long way to go from great discussions online to actual legislation but what's really exciting is that what's come out of the backlash is that there are legislators there are senators and representatives who are actually listening i wish there were more of them but there are plenty who are listening to the experts and we have we have meetings scheduled i've got one actually at the end of this week there are plenty of people who are paying attention to what writers are doing beyond just me and are actually the ones who are capable of getting these ideas turned into law now i know that a lot of us don't like the way the legislation is written because often let's face it if the lobbyist to end up writing legislation it ends up favoring a certain industry like i guess you could say the entertainment industry was one of what we saw with sopa and pipa but i mean you know how seriously can you take this what the read

going to join us to give us his take on the reading community isn't stopping after stopping sopa and pipa but there's a new suggestion to create a piece of legislation of their own called the free internet act so read it co-founder alexis ohanian is going to give us all of the details or have all that morphy tonight putting it does have happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so voting is taking place in the florida primary today and the mainstream media is just going crazy over the polls in the numbers and of course newt gingrich's upcoming demise. there have been three republican contests and three different winners and today the line is drawn in the florida sand voting is under. away in florida as republicans compete in the biggest primary of the campaign so far the winner takes all in the biggest contest today and the nastiest battle in this early primary season the last polls remain open nearly ten more hours state officials there predict it will be a big turnout more than two million voters expected to vote in florida today the stakes

of his own administration because i find it interesting how the administration was against sopa and pipa that obama signed acta now isn't ministration proposes this internet bill of rights that's a mind. you know it is and i think of a couple reasons for that first of all the administration and the democratic party in general are. very close with the entertainment industry after all they're some of obama's largest donors and the n.p.a. headed up by former democratic senator chris dodd is one of the most powerful lobbies in the country let's go back a few steps on the obama administration side acted they got to do so very quietly gather some tech blogs on the internet but nothing compared to the opposition we saw to sopa and pipa so they got to side with hollywood without the bad press for act a win win for the white house then they opposed sopa and pipa but only after all the major internet providers and tech companies came out against it and as for the internet consumer bill of rights as i said in my fireside the administration puts the onus on private companies not on the government on

the internet and internet companies rose up to protest and ultimately defeat sopa and pipa for now at least but the government's response to piracy isn't just an issue on a national level it's actually global so we spoke at length on this show about the and i counterfeiting trade agreement known as act and how this piles piracy and counterfeiting fears into one massive international agreement and it's billed as a global effort to stop counterfeit goods whether they be sports apparel computer software or music and movies and it's nothing new actually it's been in the works for about six years president obama actually signed on to the agreement last year and has been joined by australia new zealand canada morocco singapore and south korea and in a secret ceremony all countries except for five of them also signed on but over time details of active leaked out to the public and as he will put the pieces of the agreement together protests an international outcry have followed close behind this is something i discussed with the atlantic's out of cork s. just last month. president obama had t

well and i want to be very clear sopa and pipa if we're going to use the dead metaphor then we have to think of them as as somebodies as the undead because they are not their heads have been cut off unfortunately these these bills go they've been shelved and they've certainly the representatives behind them have certainly been sort of shamed by the public but they are not dead and we still have to be very very proactive now open you know which widen had talked about for many many months comes at fighting this much more intelligently then so even came close to because it was written with some actual technologist at the table but we need to go a step further and actually really make sure that there are things safeguarding our rights online and as well as looking at legislation that more effectively targets copyright theft yeah i think that you know our least what a lot of people say to you in terms of some of the reasons why maybe the big tech giants are more open to the open act is it doesn't necessarily hold them liable if you do take down some of this infringing activity within a cert

we announced the city of san francisco, the first city to oppose pipa and sopa. [applause] thank you. we started a dialogue with other cities who had blindly signed on to those things, not knowing what they were about. now we have a conversation going that we cannot use the excuse that just because we are trying to end piracy that we curtail innovation. coming from san francisco, it means a lot to the city. i took advantage of our staff. i went to the president of the u.s. conference of mayors and said, "since we are innovating in san francisco, why not allow us an audience with the rest of the mayors across the country? could we create a task force?" they said absolutely. i get to head the task force for the u.s. congress of mayors. when you innovate, and i talk to you about what you are doing, and get to present those on an annual basis to the rest of the mayors. if you are going to win tonight, that is the list i am going to start working from. i will then give you a national audience, so that if, by chance, your innovation would not only have the attraction o

there is a bill called pipa in the senate. the moniker for the bill in the house is sopa. these bills are tantamount to censorship on the internet. i was with ari emanuel, probably the most famous agent in the country, mark andriessen, in southern california, and we talked about this. mark had the most concise description. do you want to turn the united states into china, where all content is censored? these bills are not good for technology. we can name some of the leading companies of san francisco who, if this bill was passed 10 years ago, would not be allowed to even exist. it would have a horrible impact on these companies today. we are working with senators and congressmen to make sure this bill stops. it was squeaking through congress fairly rapidly because of the big media companies, they do not advertise the bill. thank god for lobbyists like technet. i am sorry to go on a ranch, but this is a serious issue for our community. our member companies will be hearing more about this because we can help. >> [inaudible] >> if you know ari emanuel well -- mark andriessen

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well there's something to be said for the way that sopa and pipa were defeated through online communities like red as well as the tech giants taking part in a blackout day and now it looks like one congressional candidate might be riding as anti-social weight richard mack is the former sheriff of arizona's graham county as well as an oath keeper a coalition of current and former law enforcement and military personnel that have pledged not to enforce laws that violate the constitution and he's taking on mars smith the texas representative who as our viewers know who is the author of sopa as well as the protecting children from internet pornographers act a bill that despite its name would actually require i as piece to store customer ip addresses for no less than twelve months now the writer community last week promoted back bringing in new attention maybe even new donations but is that going to be enough is there room in washington for politicians who are actually beholden to the constitution and not special interests joining me to discuss it is sheriff richard mack former gram county ariz

things where you know we did a lot of coverage on this program as well about the debate over sopa and pipa and one of the things you just keep wondering is are these people necessarily qualified to be legislating on complicated technological issues whereas some of them don't really understand how the internet works all that well so would you say that cyber threats are similar category in that sense i mean i can't blame members of congress because after all they are generalists who are elected by people to legislate on a huge number of issues and so this is why they have to depend on experts but what you do have to think about though is where they are want to be sort of willingly ignorant sometimes and you mean there are a lot of folks who stand to benefit from comprehensive cybersecurity legislation especially if that legislation comes to touch with big spending and so i'm more concerned about that than about their ignorance i'm sure they could be educated if they wanted to be but i guess you could also say they can be easily swayed if there's a lot of money involved right so if we have th

legislation about it now one thing's for sure the reddit community certainly wasn't consulted on sopa and pipa not to mention that many of the biggest tech firms either now became very clear the internet users and those who really understand how the internet works were consulted and the congressmen themselves all they got some serious shortcomings about knowing what this technology stuff is all about they just took whatever the m.p.a. had ari said and they ran with it and as for this reddit experiment while the community isn't made up of experienced law drafters it will be interesting to see if they can influence what actually makes it to the books next i want to respond to brian penny who tweeted about how he saw us on mainstream t.v. he said let's gloss over how i happened upon it leno used a clip from the yellow to show on tonight's the tonight show. don't worry i'm not going to judge you for watching leno's show we all have our vices i'm more partial to say tosh point handler but to each his own i do have to say it was kind of fun to have a clip played on such a popular program even if i w

movement is taking shape around the world these are up protestors who are protesting against sopa and pipa the stop online piracy act and related intellectual property laws that are attacking the internet from the corporate side the core protest want total control of the internet and is that a fair statement or is this a case of the corporate test who are attacking the innovators the entrepreneurs of the free marketeers do you see this playing out as as an extension really of this global insurrection absolutely i think it's seeing with the internet is very interesting because as markets in the real world continue to be strangled and controlled more and more by the managerial state by governments all over the world the internet is really the place where the market where the free market has gone because into it you can click anywhere you want to you can design to use any website you want and people. the freedom of choice and because they have the freedom of choice in their choices aren't enforced upon them upon which whether they should lead which website is used for their email they end up

still time to enter our facebook pipa way this week.,. >> this is always a very popular contest. all you have to do is go to wjla.com/facebook. we will announce the winner tomorrow on abc 7 news at 5:00. >> legacy of the spring lovers will be the big winners today. >> warmer and a little breezy today and especially been the tomorrow into saturday as we get the transition from the warm weather back to where we should be. the cold will be here by the weekend. let's look at live super doppler 7 radar. light rain moving through west virginia, falling apart as it crosses into the shenandoah valley. winchester will get a sprinkle early this morning. we will have isolated sprinkles in the potomac highlands this afternoon. predominately drive for the next few days overall despite some chance of rain in the forecast tonight into tomorrow morning. here is a wider view. we did have rainfall late last night and much earlier this morning especially south of the metro area. that has cleared away. we will have a warm flow out of the southwest today in

no worries out of marshal pipa get into manassas, through fair oaks, and into vienna.od in manassas city on 28 and on 29. looks good on 66 inside the beltway. no problems across the roosevelt bridge. call 395 george washington parkway working in our favor. metro rail, marc rail, and vre on normal service. >> thanks. tweeted find out today, to go across to use the dulles toll road in the future. wtop reporting their expected to receive a new analysis of long- term tollways. previous estimates have shown that a 1-way trip could cost $11 by 2013. revenue would be used to pay for most of the cost of the second phase of the metro rail extension to dulles international airport. 5:11 might now. 37 degrees in olney. the first couple hit the town to celebrate valentine's day. where they shared a private dinner. the winner has been crowned at the westminster kennel club dog show. learn which one of these won today my journey continues across the golden state, where everyone has been unbelievably nice. mornin'. i guess i'm helping them save hundreds on car insurance. it probably

and carole north avenue pipa as well. 45 -- kenilworth avenue will serve you as well. >> we will have little changed. the rain is on the way. it's going to be a rainy day. you need the umbrella ready. looking to the east from the metro area, cloudy. a very pretty morning looking at the chesapeake bay. clearing skies off to the east across the other side of the bed. 40 in annapolis right now. mainly in the 30's north and west of the metro area. 37 degrees in rockville. 39 ian burke. -- in burke. a solid line of rain, continuing to move towards the metro area. that will continue over the next couple hours. a few heavier downpours will be with us throughout the day. all this in response to the leading edge of the storm system that is well to our northwest. we have a warm front. later tonight a cold front. tomorrow for the first day of march, sunny breezy, warm. i thought you might like that. that's a story. let's look at the potential rainfall. three-quarters of an inch in the metro area. there will be pockets that are little heavier especially north and west of the washington area. and

my assertion that there is nothing here anything like what concerned people in the so apasopa and pipa. one of our witnesses was a leading proponent of -- opponent of sopa but is testifying in favor of our bill. the average user will go about using the internet just as they do today, but hopefully, as a result of the law and outreach pursuant to it, it willthey will be far better equipped to protect their own privacy and resources from cyberattack. a lot of people would work very hard to come so far in a bipartisan way to face a real and present danger to our country that was in the cannot allow this moment to slip away from us. i feel very strongly that we need to act now to defend america's cyberspace as a matter of national and economic security. senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, let me first applaud you on your leadership on this very important issue, as well as the leadership of our witnesses, senator rockefeller and senator feinstein who contributed so much to this issue and this bill. i personally want to thank you for holding this important hearing toda

we sent a letter to the head of pipa a few months ago saying the need to address this issue in the firsttance. we need the same kind of release for those loans that can now be modified and have principal reductions. we are working with california, new york, and many other states. we will work with federal partners on that. but ultimately, we need to get the same kind of resolution that we got in massachusetts. that issue is a good one to ask your congressman, your senators. they were federally created, a federally run, and the ways in which a resolution can be reached with them will have to be at the federal level. host: that is the headline. fannie mae and freddie mac face pressure on principal reduction. let me read this -- "we want to see wall street crooks in shackles." in, democrat, louis, missouri. -- diane, a democrat, st. louis, missouri. caller: i am concerned with the governor of wisconsin taking some of this money for his own state's budget. how will that be amended? who is going to monitor that the state part of that is going to go where it is supposed to? guest: a good quest

verification of my assertion that there's nothing here anywhere like what concerned people in sopa and pipah gratitude that one of our witnesses, mr. stewart baker, was a leading opponent of sopa but is testifying today in favor of our bill. after the cybersecurity act of 2012 becomes law, the average internet user will go about using the internet just as they do today. but hopefully, as a result of the law and outreach pursuant to it they'll be far better equipped to protect their own privacy and resources from cyber attack. bottom line, a lot of people have worked very hard to come so far and in a very bipartisan way to face a real and present danger to our country that we simply cannot allow this moment to slip away there us. i feel very strongly that we these to act now to defend -- we need to act now to defend america's cyberspace as a matter of national and economic security. senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, let me first applaud you for your leadership in this very important issue as well as the leadership of our two leadoff witnesses, senator rockefeller and

act known as pipa. many members of the chamber might have metaphorically speaking scars to still show from that experience. no need with this bill. this bill does nothing to affect the day-to-day workings of the internet, internet privacy and protection are important concerns of the digital age. we have to deal with that at some point, but they are simply not part of this bill. one final thing i do want to deal with is a complaint from, among others, our chamber of commerce that we are -- quote - "rushing forward with legislation that's not been fully vetted. not true. this bipartisan legislation has been three years in the making, and its outlines have not only been shared with stakeholders and the public but their input -- and the public, but their input has helped shape this final version of the bill that we're introducing today. more than 20 hearings on cybersecurity have been held across seven different senate committees with dozens more held on questions related to cybersecurity. in fact, our own