Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker AT | Judge: Bennet Eckert

Limits on free speech are good. First, neoliberalism makes free speech and agonistic dialogue impossible; restrictions are inevitable. Second, restrictions reveal the authoritarian nature of neolib and surface its contradictions – that causes antagonistic protests that are more effective than simple "dialogue" that can't reach a mass audience

Musil 14 ~Pelin Ayan, Does Antagonism Precede Agonism in Challenging Neoliberalism? The Gezi Resistance in Turkey. Acta Politologica 6, 3, 326-342. ISSN 1803-8220.~ AT
When agonistic politics cannot develop to the extent that it can successfully challenge neoliberalism to
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hidden severity of neoliberalism that claims to have a tolerant and democratic identity.

Free speech is an illusion propagated by corporatists – their model of rights assumes an equal playing field analogous to free market economists view of capital. The promotion of free speech perpetuates the idea that speech is a commodity, which strengthens neoliberalism's hold on the academy. Brown 15

Brown, Wendy. Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism's stealth revolution. MIT Press, 2015.
At times, kennedy raises the pitch in Citizens United to depict limits on corporate
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warring forces parallel to those of government and capital in a neoliberal economy.

This turns the case – the commodification of speech reflects the capitalist illusion of freedom. It makes speech meaningless and kills value to life. Smith '14

R.C. Smith April 24, 2014 "POWER, CAPITAL and THE RISE OF THE MASS SURVEILLANCE STATE: ON THE ABSENCE OF DEMOCRACY, ETHICS, DISENCHANTMENT and CRITICAL THEORY" Heathwood Institute and Press http://www.heathwoodpress.com/power-capital-the-rise-of-the-mass-surveillance-state-on-the-absence-of-democracy-ethics-disenchantment-critical-theory/ JJN from file
One pressing issue, moreover, is that majority of the popular movements that have
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which produces and reproduces the epistemic context of its own validity.~13~

Best data proves industrial civilization is unsustainable absent major structural changes – capitalism is driving us on a course to collapse

Ahmed 14 ~Nafeez Ahmed (executive director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development). "Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?" The Guardian. Published 3/14, Updated 3/16/14~ AJ
A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the
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Hegemony is not an option; it's Anarchism or bust I am afraid. 

The role of the judge is to be a critical analyst testing whether the underlying assumptions of the AFF are valid. This is a question of the whether the AFF scholarship is good.