Resolution: Citizens should have a right to internet privacy.


Affirmative Position: As more and more parts of our lives move online, our right to privacy is being devastated. Everything we say, everywhere we go, and everyone we know is fair game. Surveillance has a chilling effect on free speech and free association, undermines free media, and threatens the free exercise of religion. It doesn’t matter if the surveillance is done by governments or corporations.


The affirmative position contains the misconception that "everything we say, everywhere we go, and everyone we know is fair game.” How can the misconception be addressed?


by showing how internet activity can be monitored

by showing how surveillance occurs in cities

by describing how governments monitor internet activity

by describing how internet activity is only one aspect of people’s lives

Answer: by describing how internet activity is only one aspect of people’s lives