On Berkeley, Calif., radio station KPFA’s “Sunday Show with Philip Maldari” over the weekend, Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer discussed the tension between the Internet’s capacities to liberate and enslave and cheered Kentucky Libertarian Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s defense of individual privacy in defiance of widespread acceptance among his governing peers of pervasive domestic spying in a recent, well-received speech at UC Berkeley.

Hear the lively, sometimes adversarial and wholly informative hour-long discussion among Scheer, Maldari and callers to the show here.

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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