'State of Surveillance' with Edward Snowden and Shane Smith

[Guest]

In "modern democracies" there is an attempt to hide the coercive power of the state. Instead of tanks on the streets, Western régimes use the state educational system and the media as weapons of population control. Social media has now given state and corporate agents unprecedented access to the private lives of ordinary people, and given them a frighteningly powerful tool for mind control, emotional manipulation and the promotion of Group Think.