This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, February 20th, 2015. I'm Caleb Brown.

Matt Kibby, the President of Freedom Works, is bullish on the struggle for freedom

at the International Students for Liberty Conference this weekend.

We discussed disruptive innovations like Uber and the new abilities Americans have to organize themselves politically on behalf of liberty.

The biggest challenge today I think in the freedom movement is actually understanding how big of an opportunity we see before us and

I think this is all about the internet.

The internet has changed everything.

It has made us freer on virtually every aspect of our lives.

It is also the mechanism by which the surveillance state can

can monitor every aspect of our activities.

It's not an accident, the tyrants of every stripe.

U.S. Senators like Lindsey Graham, real tyrants in the Middle East.

The first thing they do is they try to take away people's ability to know,

people's ability to find out for themselves what's going on to self-organize,

to protest.

So what do we do with this opportunity? I think it changes how we do things.

And here at the Students for Liberty you can see in real time the net result of the fact that young people have better information.

When I was 16 years old, nothing like this could have conceivably existed.

Young people could have never found each other they couldn't have found ideas.

So that's what I'm interested in solving that problem because I think the answer to all our

problems from national security to the surveillance state, to the

organization of society, to economic gains from the bottom up, come from

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