Britain's Channel 4 asked Edward Snowden to deliver this year's "Alternative Christmas Message." (A response to the Queen's annual Christmas address.) Snowden began:

Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain's George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information. The types of collection in the book—microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us—are nothing compared to what we have available today.

You can watch the rest here.