How you can tell when Alexis Ohanian is lying? His lips are moving.

Have you ever gone to a car dealership and talked to a slimy, vile, unshaven used car salesman?  If so, you'll get a familiar visceral reaction to this guy:

The thing that bothers me about him is not that he is lying, it is that he knows he is lying but he thinks you are too stupid to catch on.

Watch the video.  Watch him look you square in the eye and declare "reddit does not host any of this content".  That is a lie.  He knows it is a lie, you know it is a lie, we all know it is a lie.

Let's take the moderators of reddit's jailbait forum as an example.  When they create their user names, say I_RAPE_PEOPLE (yes, the name of one of reddit's moderators) where does that name get stored?  The answer is reddit's database.

When a moderator of reddit's jailbait forum brags about having oral sex with his young stepdaughter, where are those comments stored?  Again, the answer is reddit's database, and again, I didn't make that up.

Reddit does host that content and Ohanian very well knows it.

Watch the video and watch him earnestly explain how the CNN piece was just "confused journalists talking about something they didn't really understand" and how "none of them know how it works".

Now watch the actual CNN piece.  Watch Anderson Cooper go into great detail about "how it works".  Watch him show reddit's screens in detail - including jailbait forum screens, explain who owns reddit, how much growth they have had and how many unique visitors they get.  Watch Anderson Cooper explain how things get on the reddit frontpage, how subReddits are created, and how users can be banned.  Watch him show and read directly from reddit's post titles, reddit's rules, reddiquette, and reddit's corporate blog.

Now go back and watch Ohanian feign about "none of them know how it works".  He is a liar and he is shameless!

Watch him look you in the eye and tell you "there is nothing we can do to effectively police reddit".  Um... didn't they just shut down their jailbait forum?  Wasn't THAT "something"?

Watch Ohanian bitterly complain "I wish I had been invited, Anderson".  But Bob Sauerberg, the President of Conde Nast, referred CNN to Eric Martin.  All Conde Nast had to do was hook CNN up with Ohanian and he would have been invited.  Instead Ohanian calls it a "smear piece" and pretends that CNN didn't contact them.

The thing that bothers me most about this guy is that he has choices.  There are some people in this economy who are forced to take crappy telemarketing jobs in order to put food on the table.  But Ohanian has options.  He could get a respectable job, but be CHOOSES to be a professional liar and child porn peddler.  This is the life that he chose.

I have no respect for him.  None.