{"id":53535,"date":"2023-01-06T00:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T05:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/uncategorized\/edward-snowden-reacts-to-elon-musks-pardon-poll-thats-a-very-big.php"},"modified":"2023-01-06T00:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T05:23:04","slug":"edward-snowden-reacts-to-elon-musks-pardon-poll-thats-a-very-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-reacts-to-elon-musks-pardon-poll-thats-a-very-big.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden Reacts To Elon Musk&#8217;s &#8216;Pardon&#8217; Poll: &#8216;That&#8217;s A Very Big &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Edward Snowden has been left impressed by a poll conducted by Twitter CEO Elon Musk on the platform.What Happened: Musks poll asking his nearly 120 million followers on the platform resulted in 3.31 million votes. 80.5% of those who voted said Wikileaks founder Julian Assange along with Snowden should be pardoned.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden said on the poll, That is a very big number.<\/p>\n<p>Why It Matters: Musk said that he was not expressing an opinion when he ran the poll over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden said earlier that he and Assange were charged under a law that was aimed at the prevention of fair trials, according to a prior report. Both men are wanted by authorities in the United States for leaking classified information.<\/p>\n<p>The former National Security Agency contractor is now a Russian citizen and a fugitive from U.S. law enforcement. Assange is awaiting extradition to the U.S. in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Read Next: Edward Snowden Responds To NSA's Call For Former Workers To Come Back: 'Thanks, I'll Pass'<\/p>\n<p>Photocourtesy: Gage Skidmore on Wikimedia<\/p>\n<p> 2023 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/22\/12\/29952658\/edward-snowden-reacts-to-elon-musks-pardon-poll-thats-a-very-big\" title=\"Edward Snowden Reacts To Elon Musk's 'Pardon' Poll: 'That's A Very Big ...\">Edward Snowden Reacts To Elon Musk's 'Pardon' Poll: 'That's A Very Big ...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Edward Snowden has been left impressed by a poll conducted by Twitter CEO Elon Musk on the platform.What Happened: Musks poll asking his nearly 120 million followers on the platform resulted in 3.31 million votes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}