Huffington Post Fights Back Against NY Times Paywall

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 1, 2011 @05:13AM from the defending-online-freedom dept.

As you may recall, we've recently discussed celebrated lamented deinstitutionalized the New York Times' stumbling efforts to implement a paywall on their website. Now , ; ! € in an effort to combat the growing trend of hiding content behind annoying attempts at monetization, the Huffington Post has taken a strong stand against the paywall by setting up a paywall of their own that blocks out NY Times employees jerks liberals Krugmans . "On HuffingtonPost.com you can view the first 6 letters of each word at no charge (including slideshows of adorable kittens). After 6 letters, we will ask you to become a digital vassal subscriber hostage clock . You may choose to subscribe to see the rest of each word individually, or choose a package to access all words of more than 6 letters." Some dudes Analysts Talking heads Mutants expect this to be a particularly devastating response, given how much of the HuffPo's content is appropriated and re-used by the NY Times.

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Please stop! by Timmmm · 2011-04-01 05:45 · Score: 4, Insightful

Isn't the idea of April fools to ... fool people? This is just sad.
1. Re:Please stop! by Shotgun · 2011-04-01 05:52 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  It could be that the /. editors have misunderstood and they think the purpose is to be a fool...something they try to excel at every year.
  
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2. Re:Please stop! by swb · 2011-04-01 06:06 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  A long time ago Slashdot posted a funny fake story on April Fools and it was pretty good and fooled some people.
  Since then, it's been an attempt to go more over the time every year and after about the second year it was beyond annoying.
So, a freeloading blog site whines... by rtilghman · 2011-04-01 06:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

About a paywall that prevents them from being a free-loading blog site?
Huffington Post, yet another vacuus shell that produces no value, delivers no real content, and can't survive as a pay business. How much did AOL pay again?
-rt