![]() It has the potential to stifle freedom of speech, it has the potential to curb innovation… Something as global and powerful as the open internet getting ham-fisted by undemocratic treatment, like we’re seeing from these closed-door meetings, is incredibly infuriating. The Trans-Pacific Partnership basically wants to strong-arm absurd intellectual property requirements among, what? A dozen nations? And it's all done behind closed-doors, without any public discussion, without any anything. What do you think about the TPP?Īlexis: It's ridiculous. The newest iteration of that is the TPP -a twelve-country alliance to enforce American intellectual property ideals. But it feels like every couple of months, a new country or a new alliance is trying to pass a bill that will somehow censor the web. VICE: You've been very outspoken about internet freedom. ![]() I got a few minutes to sit down and talk with him about open internet, the TPP, Reddit and Aaron Swartz after he got off stage and just before he started signing books. ![]() ![]() Besides telling his back story and offering advice during his hour-long talk, Alexis also made an effort to appeal to the crowd by describing Waterloo as a cutting-edge place for research and startups (which is why it's one of his few Canadian stops), making a Rob Ford joke, and poking fun at the University of Toronto. ![]() Ohanian is traveling the continent to speak with students, while promoting his new book about how the internet can change the world without the help of existing powers: Without Their Permission. Alex Ohanian standing in front of Lorde Ford.Īlexis Ohanian is a lot taller than I expected him to be, because for whatever reason I presume internet innovators to be of average or below average height-and whether it was deliberate or the result of some cosmic, happy accident, he also wears upvote-orange and downvote-blue checkered shirts.Ohanian, a co-founder of Reddit who’s also a notable internet freedom activist, stopped by the University of Waterloo last Friday as part of his 77-stop university and college campus tour. ![]()
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