“‘I think we are awakening to a new age of sort of distributed — instead of centralized — hubs for all our data,’ he explained. ‘So I think this is the free market, we could very likely see alternatives pop up were social networking or whatever the thing might be does not concentrate all of our private data in one particular space.’ Ohanian was a vocal opponent of legislation known as the Stop Online Piracy Act. Reddit, along with other tech giants like Wikipedia, successfully killed the bill by staging an Internet ‘blackout.’ However, Ohanian admitted that drumming up support to fight NSA surveillance was a more difficult task than battling SOPA.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/30/reddit-co-founder-tech-companies-can-help-fight-nsa-snooping/