"We're fighting against the wholesale destruction of the Internet," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told a crowd of perhaps 1,000 people gathered in front of the midtown Manhattan offices of Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrats who are co-sponsors of the Senate legislation. The crowd, organized by the New York Tech Meetup, also heard from Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow, Internet thinker Clay Shirky, Tumblr vice president and former White House policy hand Andrew McLaughlin, venture capitalist Brad Burnham, Demand Progress founder Aaron Swartz, "Filter Bubble" author and MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, and Personal Democracy Media founder Andrew Rasiej.
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