Skip to content

Live Q&A with Edward Snowden Today at 3pm EST

Questions can be submitted via Twitter today using the #AskSnowden hashtag. 
Sign up for Big Think on Substack
The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free.

The first live chat with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden since last June will take place today. Questions can be submitted via Twitter today using the #AskSnowden hashtag. Snowden’s responses will appear at http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden

That site is run by The Courage Foundation (formerly the Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund). The live chat, to be held at 3pm EST, will take place exactly one week after President Obama gave a speech addressing the U.S. surveillance practices that were revealed by Snowden. 

Sign up for Big Think on Substack
The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free.
Related
A bearded man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt speaks with a microphone clipped to his collar in front of a purple background with white dots.
The Well
How Rainn Wilson discovered sacredness
The hospital where Rainn Wilson’s wife and son nearly died became his own personal holy site. There, he discovered that the sacred can exist in places we least expect it. During his talk at A Night of Awe and Wonder, he explained how the awe we feel in moments of courage and love is moral beauty — and following it might be the start of our spiritual revolution.
▸
13 min
—
with
Rainn Wilson
Up Next
Words of Wisdom
Eisenstein’s Precious Profession
“The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.” – Sergei Eisenstein (born on this date in 1898)