Here’s a heads-up to those who are interested in watching the straight-forward debate on what the Toronto Star labeled in today’s print edition “Big Brother – bad or good?”
Scheduled for 7:00 p.m. EDT, Munk Debates, a Canadian charitable initiative, will set the stage for
- former director of the NSA, CIA, and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Gen. Michael Hayden (ret.), and
- Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Alan Dershowitz,
who will represent the pro-side of the debate, facing
- investigative journalist, columnist, and Snowden revelations chronicler Glenn Greenwald, and
- serial Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of the social news website reddit Alexis Ohanian,
who will argue against the pervasive state surveillance that became public with the global surveillance disclosures triggered by Edward Snowden a year ago.
The format of the debate includes an online as well as audience vote. Short opening statements are followed by a civil and substantive moderated panel discussion, concluded by short closing statements. The event takes place in Toronto in front of an audience of 3,000 people. It lasts approximately an hour and a half. The final vote is tallied and the winning side announced before 9:00 PM.
The debate will be live streamed to this link.
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