Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: X | Judge: X
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Framing
The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who better performatively and methodologically resists surveillance. CX checks any ambiguities.
The surveillance state corrupts scholarship through “thoughtcrime” – confronting this is a prior question
Steinberg 13 R. Lila Steinberg, PhD student at UCLA; 3-8-2013; "The Premise of Digital Surveillance Precludes Scholarship"; http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14839-the-premise-of-digital-surveillance-precludes-scholarship JC
However, a new "For Whites Only" or "For Men Only"
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prior restraint on the very foundation of scholarship - wide and uncensored inquiry.
Surveillance has invaded public pedagogy, coopting dissent, debate, and critical dialogue, resistance is key to avoid global violence
Giroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University Henry, “Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State,” Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state
The point of no return in the emergence of the corporate-state surveillance apparatus
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the very real threat of violence on both a domestic and global level.
“The practice of surveillance is both separate and unequal.” Minority groups represent the bulk of those targeted
Giroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University Henry, “Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State,” Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state ellipses included in original article
The practice of surveillance is both separate and unequal. ... Welfare recipients ... are
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state violence by making an appeal to the necessity of safety and security.
It’s try or die – the surveillance state ensures genocide and extinction
Saul 15 Quincy, Author, Editor, and Founder of Ecosocialist Horizons, March 23, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Truth Out, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/29664-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse
Surveillance States: 1984 has arrived, only 30 years after Orwell predicted. The
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to realize it. Time to seize the day and never let go.
The ballot is key - just like voting in system of government, casting a ballot in a debate is an endorsement of material change. Thus, the judge is not just the arbiter of who wins the debate, but is recognized as an agent implementing change on a micropolitical level.
Foucault 81 Michel, 1981, an interview with Libération, “Is it really important to think?” *brackets in original
Liberation: On election night we asked you for your initial reactions. You didn't
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relation in which work le travail will have an important role.
Debate should surround material consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression.
Curry 14 Dr. Tommy J; “The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century”, Victory Briefs, 2014
Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real
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economic structures which necessitate tangible policies and reorienting changes in our value orientations.
Contention
The censorship of online speech enables universities to monitor their students and staff – everything from emails and social media to campus whereabouts. This draws parallels to NSA surveillance, as universities shut down criticism of the surveillance regime.
Perrino 13 Nico; 10-22-2013; "Universities: where you go to learn – and be monitored"; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/22/online-social-media-surveillance-university-campuses JC
It monitors email and social media accounts, uses thousands of surveillance cameras to track
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To roll it back, we must take into account its entire scope.
This debate should center around online speech – it’s the core controversy of the topic
Creeley and Lukianoff 11 Will Creeley – Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2006; B.A., New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2003. Greg Lukianoff – President, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., Stanford Law School, 2000; B.A., American University, 1996.; “NEW MEDIA, OLD PRINCIPLES: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS”; 5/13/2011; https://www.thefire.org/pdfs/e674c6c95dec401e5a62c9bbc409112c.pdf JC
With every passing year, the longstanding battle over freedom of expression for students at
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) or would be protected in society at large (at private colleges).
Thus, I affirm: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected online speech. I reserve the right to clarify.
Creeley and Lukianoff 11 Will Creeley – Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2006; B.A., New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2003. Greg Lukianoff – President, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., Stanford Law School, 2000; B.A., American University, 1996.; “NEW MEDIA, OLD PRINCIPLES: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS”; 5/13/2011; https://www.thefire.org/pdfs/e674c6c95dec401e5a62c9bbc409112c.pdf JC
Further, the new visibility of speech offers opportunities for increased understanding and tolerance of
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we can begin to resolve the current tension regarding online speech on campus.
The aff solves:
1 Resisting surveillance in education causes a widespread culture shift
Taylor 13 Emmeline Taylor; “Surveillance Schools: Security, Discipline and Control in Contemporary Education” (Crime Prevention and Security Management); 2013 JC
Upcoming generations will emerge from Surveillance Schools desensitised to, and expectant of, intense
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social interaction and nowhere is the surveillance revolution more crystallised than in schools.
2 Surveillance uniquely threatens students’ freedoms. Criticizing and protesting surveillance both on campus and in debate is vital to civic engagement and social change.
Glaser 14 — April Glaser, Staff Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2014 (“17 Student Groups Pen Open Letters on the Toxicity of Mass Surveillance to Academic Freedom,” Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 9th, Available Online at https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/students-against-surveillance-17-university-groups-pen-open-letters-toxicity-mass)
Students are rising up and fighting to protect our Internet. In response to our
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, push for change, and put an end to mass government surveillance.
Students are key – no one else will oppose surveillance.
Tempera 13 — Jackie Tempera, Summer USA Today Collegiate Correspondent, Journalism Student at Emerson College, 2013 (“Viewpoint: Where are the college students protesting NSA surveillance?,” USA Today, June 19th, Available Online at http://college.usatoday.com/2013/06/19/opinion-where-are-the-college-students-protesting-nsa-surveillance/)
The college-age generation has been known as the protesters, the action takers
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For all I care, vehemently argue for it — just do something.
3 The AFF’s critical interrogation and analyses of surveillance is crucial to analyzing the way in which daily life and the body itself has become a feature of securitization—our dissent functions as an unravelling and exposure of dominant power relations
Giroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University Henry, “Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State,” Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state
Totalitarian paranoia runs deep in American society, and it now inhabits the highest levels
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an educational endeavour and responsibility as it is a political and cultural task.
Pedagogical praxis is key – translating critique into action is key to making education central in political effectiveness.
Giroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University Henry, “Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State,” Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state
Dissent is crucial to any viable notion of democracy and provides a powerful counterforce to
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most evident in the insults and patriotic gore heaped on Manning and Snowden.
