He added, “It is not like Occupy Wall Street but there is a grassroots movement to take to the streets on July 4 in defense of the Fourth Amendment called Restore the Fourth Amendment and it grew out of Reddit. “I have been surprised and pleased to see the public has reacted so strongly in defense of these rights that are being suppressed in the name of security,” Snowden said. Snowden, the National Security Agency document-leaker, told the Guardian that he was inspired, at least in part, by one of Reddit’s more obscure sub-communities known as r/restorethefourth.
Perhaps Ohanian’s response is a more accurate reflection of why Reddit users like Edward Snowden would go public with their persona. “It’s really a testament to the Internet and its ability to help people, you know whether it’s people all over the world connecting with each other, or whether it’s people in a smaller geographical location connecting with each other,” Ohanian said in his optimistic tone of why users would want to take part in Meetup Day. In 160 locations around the world, including right here in Los Angeles, users will be celebrating Global Reddit Meetup Day with parties, games and events.īut why would anyone want to ruin something so perfect, something so anonymous? Why would you want to ruin what we have, Reddit?
It is the day where users around the world are invited to freely come out from behind their computer screens to meet in real life. Saturday, however, marks a special day in the Reddit community.
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To help identify another user in a public place, Reddit users created the code phrase, “the narwhal bacons at midnight.”
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There’s no verification process and no way to track a person’s Reddit persona to their real identity. The website allows users to register a username anonymously with any screen name they choose.
He added, “In the back of my head, I am sure I thought this would be this incredible platform for people all around the world to share ideas, but you know, at the time our ambitions were frankly a lot more modest.” We just wanted to create something that worked,” Reddit’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian told me of starting his first company with Steve Huffman. “Steve and I, we had just graduated from college.
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