But Reditt co-founder Alexis Ohanian decided not to participate when he saw that the deck was stacked.

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AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) -- Alexis Ohanian is not the mayor of the Internet.

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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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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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That's where Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, came in.

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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.

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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.

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