CANNES — Filmmaker Oliver Stone showed up at Cannes Lions to promote his movie based on Edward Snowden — and blasted the tech giants for "collaborating" with the government.

Stone, the director of movies including "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July," appeared in Cannes on Wednesday to talk about his upcoming film "Snowden."

And he slammed tech giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft, accusing them of "collaborating" with the government in the Snowden case.

"It's a form of fascism — the sovereignty of the state versus the sovereignty of the individual," he said. "It's the reverse of the way this country was founded."

The famously fiery director also ranted about the "surveillance state" and accused the two presumptive nominees, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, of supporting it.

The topic of government surveillance on the pubic "was not even mentioned in the debates, both candidates are for it — and want more of it, it seems. Nor have they discussed climate control, for the Earth's fate, nor the wars and the US' involvement in them, nor the buildup of our military," Stone complained.

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