of information or make use of stress that although it's delayed the initiative will be revived trevor tim from the electronic frontier foundation says these laws are not just aimed at fighting piracy. unfortunately the provisions were written so broadly that they would probably end up censoring millions of innocent users who never even thought about copyright infringement and the worst part was it wasn't even a stop on line piracy. you know the bills didn't go directly after the owners of these sites that kind of went around everything around it so it was going to be censored the domain names or they were going to be listed from search engines on the orders of the government or corporations were going to allow be allowed to cut off payment processor and advertisers from these sites just basically on an allegation in an unopposed court order and then again there was going to be brought immunity for in that service providers to enforce these bills so they could end up over blocking sites and capturing innocent users and even blocking sites voluntarily just on the unofficial orders of corpor

downloading and protect copyright but critics say they would lead to censorship of the internet trevor tim from the electronic frontier. ation says americans are seeing the news as a real victory in the battle for online freedom. we saw over one hundred fifteen thousand sites somehow alter their web pages or somewhat alter what their web pages a lot of them blacked out completely meaning that users couldn't even gets them including with a pedia which is the sixth largest u.s. this sent a huge huge message message to congress you know most of the american public hadn't even heard about these bills before the blackout day and once these sites blacked out everybody started calling their congress men and e-mailing them we had sent out over one hundred e-mails on sorry a million e-mails just in that one day google got seven million signatures on their petition and so by the end of the day we had a huge swing in congress so it was a major victory for in our mind activism in internet freedom. watching on t.v. live from moscow now russia's space agency's and vicious plans to step up exploration of

copyright laws end up infringing on people's right to free speech or we have to leave it there trevor tim from the electronic frontier foundation thanks for your proper perspective thanks a lot. u.s. senate is not the only ones facing accusations of censorship britain is under fire for the country's media regulator revoking the license of press t.v. via iranian english language broadcaster the washtub says the channel was in breach of regulations because it didn't control its content press t.v. says it's being silenced through research you k. based media analyst and author thinks the station was taken off the air the off the air not because of its journalism. if this had been separated from geopolitics then no this would not have happened most of the criticisms of press t.v. ad been due to its coverage because you know it sees the middle east very differently for example than the mainstream media in britain this repeatedly comes up pro israeli groups repeatedly complain about it and we know by the way through wiki leaks we know very well that the british government at the very highest lev

enough to stop the impending damage to what we know as internet freedom joining me to discuss it is trevor tim activist at the electronic frontier foundation he also curates the legal twitter feed reporting on legal and first amendment issues surrounding wiki leaks trevor thanks for joining us tonight. first i got to get your opinion here because some people are trying to report this differently right wired for example said that leahy said that he's going to remove this d.n.a. as option might masnick over technique is pointing out that he's saying that he's actually maybe just postponing it what's your take. well i think there's two separate issues here because there's two separate bills of soap in the house and. in the senate so what leahy said is he wants to study this d.n.a.'s provision after the bills passed he doesn't want to implement it right away and this is kind of the way tack it's a tactic like mike as it was saying he's essentially proposing that we wait on implementing it and then when nobody's paying attention we go ahead and start again . but lamar smith on the other hand surpri

damaging aspects of the protect ip so can we say that all of this is a testament to online activism trevor tim from the electronic electronic frontier foundation is going to join us will have all that including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. the fall out of the video of u.s. marines urinating on dead taliban fighters continues the former eans in the video have now been identified and reports as saying that they could face charges of war crimes now not because they care about the war in afghanistan but because they love scandal the mainstream media is sticking to the story. more on that disturbing and disgusting video that we talked about yesterday showing our u.s. marines urinating on taliban bodies it's not just about the instances about america and the impact on america's image it leon panetta once again condemning the actions of a handful over mean seen on tape urinating being urinated on or urinated on by marines of dead taliban fighters multiple investigations being launched is this as the pentagon tries to really control the damage

trevor my main man. >> here we go. >> i rarely make the right pick. i want to show everyone what we discussed thursday. >> so embarrassing. >> i think tim tebow. >> no, broncos. upset pick. >> i'm upset you picked them. you're going to be upset you pick them. hey. i have an evil twin brother. that was not me. to tebow i am very sorry i said that. you are my guy. i am back on the band wagon. i am not getting off. they're going to beat the patriots. >> they're going to beat the patriots. that is a pretty big prediction. let's go back to yesterday and look at the play in overtime. tim tebow hits dmar yus thomas for an 80-yard touchdown. i want to show you specifically the breakdown here. 11 steelers in the box. >> that is not a breakdown, a big-time mistake. that is not a great play but an average nfl play. at no point does any defense not have a safety in the middle of the field. obviously he went left and is supposed to go right. something is wrong. you do not put 11 people and a quarterback and a shotgun and he only gets two yards. that is a mistake and why today people in pittsburgh are defending taylor saying no he did his job. they aren't going to