create a piece of legislation of their own called the free internet act so read it co-founder alexis ohanian is going to give us all of the details or have all that morphy tonight putting it does have happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so voting is taking place in the florida primary today and the mainstream media is just going crazy over the polls in the numbers and of course newt gingrich's upcoming demise. there have been three republican contests and three different winners and today the line is drawn in the florida sand voting is under. away in florida as republicans compete in the biggest primary of the campaign so far the winner takes all in the biggest contest today and the nastiest battle in this early primary season the last polls remain open nearly ten more hours state officials there predict it will be a big turnout more than two million voters expected to vote in florida today the stakes are huge fifty delegates are up for grabs the largest haul yet the winner takes all of them and seizes momentum as the clear front runner and

of legislation coming up from lawmakers but from the people well joining me to discuss it is alexis ohanian co-founder of reddit alexis nice to have you back on the show tonight if you can you know let's start give us a little bit of explanation with how this all happened somebody decided to just come up with an idea said hey let's talk about a free internet we can come up with that on our own and then the conversation just started flowing yeah yeah that's pretty much it in fact we're seeing a lot of the same self mobilization that we saw during the sopa and pipa protests planning the magic of reddit is that anyone can come up with an idea and have it turn into something much much bigger and so someone had this idea reddit or you know with a username that is probably it's just some silly characters and entire community now is gone behind it at f a that is free internet act dot reddit dot com and so you can create a separate about anything you want and it just so happens now that there's one discussing everything imaginable about legislation that the community would like to see put forward t

listen now first i want to respond to a viewer the watched our interview with reddit co-founder alexis ohanian about the free internet act as a reddit user generated idea in response to pip and so but alex wolff five said on you tube ordinary people drafting laws next thing you know they'll be expecting a democratically elected representative government i know it does seem insane doesn't it the people who actually use the internet know how it works might be consulted on legislation about it now one thing's for sure the reddit community certainly wasn't consulted on sopa and pipa not to mention that many of the biggest tech firms either now became very clear the internet users and those who really understand how the internet works were consulted and the congressmen themselves all they got some serious shortcomings about knowing what this technology stuff is all about they just took whatever the m.p.a. had ari said and they ran with it and as for this reddit experiment while the community isn't made up of experienced law drafters it will be interesting to see if they can influence what actually