Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Reddit Co-Founder Defends Site and Internet Freedom of Speech | Reduction

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Reddit Co-Founder Defends Site and Internet Freedom of Speech

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Reddit has had quite a few months of attention-grabbing news – both positive and negative. On the positive side, the social network, which is built around forum threads, was used by President Obama to connect with voters in one of the site’s “Ask Me Anythings,” or AMAs. It also deployed an “Internet 2012″ bus through Middle America during the presidential debates to share stories about people across the nation who are using the Internet to build businesses. “We wanted to break this false narrative of innovation only coming from Silicon Valley. We certainly feel that way here in New York. We’ve got a great, booming tech sector,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told ABC News’ Paula Faris in an ABC News/Yahoo! News Newsmakers interview. “It’s so much bigger than that.

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Alexis Ohanian

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0.0585107“Internet 2012″ bus through Middle America during the presidential debates to share stories about people across the nation who are using the Internet to build businesses. “We wanted to break this false narrative of innovation only coming from Silicon Valley. We certainly feel that way here in New York. We’ve got a great, booming tech sector,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told ...
0“But all of that rests on this premise that all links are created equal,” he said. ...
0.188921“But all of that rests on this premise that all links are created equal,” he said. “All that rests on the fact that it’s a flat network without hierarchies. I like saying the world is not flat, but the World Wide Web is. And preserving that technological level playing field, where all links are created equal, is so important.”
0.148316“The challenge that Reddit faces, like all other social media sites, is how do we be better stewards of the technology,” Ohanian said. ...
0.0414459“There certainly always have been bad people and good people,” he added. ...
0.0542375“There certainly always have been bad people and good people,” he added. “This platform, this technology, is enabling for anyone who’s on it. So that gives the potential next great founder the chance for her to start that great company – and that’s awesome. But it also gives the jerk the chance to be a jerk, and do it at scale and have lots of other people see that and witness that. There are yet no good technological solutions for humanity.”
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President Obama

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Paula Faris

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Company: Reddit

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Company: Twitter

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Company: YouTube

Overall Sentiment: 0.111293

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