But at his presentation Friday, Ohanian called on the audience to get active in politics.
But Reditt co-founder Alexis Ohanian decided not to participate when he saw that the deck was stacked.
AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) -- Alexis Ohanian is not the mayor of the Internet.
Ohanian emerged as a vocal opponent of the Stop Online Piracy Act.
The concert's promoter, Debbie Ohanian, who owns a salsa club on Miami Beach, has been called a Castro agent.
Credit goes to unacknowledged heroes like Elizabeth Stark, Alexis Ohanian and Aaron Swartz among many others who led the fight in the trenches.
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The video shows Ohanian trying to call Google CEO Larry Page to urge him to oppose the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
Despite Ohanian's plea and the White House veto threat, the House passed the CISPA bill on Thursday by a vote of 288 to 127.
During the Internet 2012 Bus Tour, Ohanian and a group of journalists, entrepreneurs and Internet advocates visited states traditionally thought of as agricultural epicenters.
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In his push for Internet freedom, Reddit co-founder and angel investor Alexis Ohanian has tried a strike, a boycott, and even a bat-signal.
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"One of the few narratives the entertainment industry kept trying to push was that they were really pushing for this on behalf of the artists, " Ohanian said.
Ohanian says the real goal of the campaign, which will kick off in October, is to insert Internet freedom as a major issue in the 2012 presidential campaign.
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That's where Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, came in.
Ohanian helped Chambers host an AMA ("Ask Me Anything") on Reddit and create a project on crowd-funding site Kickstarter to pay for his first new album in decades.
And, last week, he shared on his social accounts a "rumor roundup" article from a tech blog that said Ohanian, himself, might be mulling a run for office.
They're feel-good stories, but also ones that roll into a narrative about how government controls on the Internet can be dangerous to freedom, job creation and other rights and goals, Ohanian said.
But in the end, Ohanian (who, at 29, couldn't shoot for the U.S. Senate for another year at any rate) said he thinks he can do more for the cause from where he sits now.
The project also hopes to print an enormous copy of the Declaration of Internet Freedom that Ohanian and others helped to launch earlier this year, and to have it signed by thousands of people.
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Ohanian, who also helped launch travel site Hipmunk and runs Breadpig, a site that gives all proceeds to social causes, said that like some of his other successes, his role was a matter of good timing.
One grim blog post written by Mr. Swartz in 2007 described "the day Aaron killed himself" and worried a colleague, Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of the website Reddit, enough that he called the police, Mr. Ohanian said.
Ohanian spoke with CNN shortly after giving a presentation at the South by Southwest Interactive festival here -- one in which he shared stories from the Internet 2012 Bus Tour he and Reddit general manager Erik Martin launched during last year's election season.
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"I'm hoping that all of these tech companies take the stand that their privacy policies matter, their users' privacy matters, and no legislation like CISPA should take that away, " Alexis Ohanian, former owner of Reddit (Wired's parent company Conde Nast currently owns Reddit), said in a video posted last week.
Ohanian, who is on the steering committee for the Internet Defense League and is very active in the fight to preserve internet freedom, also called on the public to sign a petition to defeat CISPA in the way users helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Propert Act in 2011.
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