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Season 25 Episode 3: Apartheid as a business model

According to author and investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein, Big Tech and governments will increasingly join forces to control — and ultimately oppress — populations. He argues that all of Palestine has effectively become a laboratory for the surveillance industry. The notion that every Palestinian poses a threat has become so mainstream that everyone must be monitored. To keep that system running, Israel has for years received assistance from Big Tech, including one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies: Palantir — named after a seeing stone with prophetic powers from *The Lord of the Rings*.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

25

Episodes:

617

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

19 min

First Air:

2002

Rating:

7.4