Reddit Founder, Not buying Facebook, or CISPA
May 8, 2012 by Jack Blood
Filed under Sci-Tech
In an interview with CNN, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian said he would refuse to buy Facebook stock because of the company’s appalling attitude to privacy and its support for the CISPA bill.
Reddit joins Mozilla as the only other major tech company to decry CISPA, with firms like Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Symantec, AT&T and Verizon all backing the bill. Last week, Mozilla released a statement calling the legislation an “alarming” threat to privacy, adding, “The bill infringes on our privacy, includes vague definitions of cybersecurity, and grants immunities to companies and government that are too broad around information misuse.”
I hope this isn’t just a PR stunt to get support, then sell out later down the road.. I hope Reddit and Mozilla actually mean it and stick too it.