Reddit Co-Founder On Net Neutrality: "It's A Terrible Brand"

BuzzFeed - The Internet activist Alexis Ohanian tells BuzzFeed that despite its problems gaining public attention, net neutrality is a vital cause. View Video › facebook.com Alexis Ohanian, the internet activist and creator of the news site and meme machine Reddit, is optimistic about net neutrality, despite the fact that, as he said tonight at the BuzzFeed Brews event, in conversation with BuzzFeed FWD editor Charlie Warzel, "it could use a mascot." Net neutrality, the idea that internet service providers should have to treat access to all sites equally, is currently subject to a 120-day public comment period held by the FCC. Currently, internet service providers can charge major traffic hogs—like Netflix—what Ohanian called an "extortion fee" for normal consumer access to their sites. Ohanian is strongly associated with efforts to protect free and open internet access, particularly the successful` web campaign to defeat the 2011 Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that sough to v