Reddit to Bring the Internet to the People

Social news website plans cross country bus tour

In early October, candidates will be wheeling across the country, feverishly shaking hands and kissing babies. It's a familiar, thoroughly rehearsed, and perfectly choreographed routine. But this fall, the candidates will be joined by a new presence bussing across the heartlands: Reddit.

Reddit, which pulled down an astounding 3.1 billion pageviews in July, still furrows brows among less tech-savvy crowds. There are many still unfamiliar with the passionate Web community, but Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian made headlines this year during the protests of SOPA and PIPA, the online piracy acts that threatened the open nature of the Internet.

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