Is Huffington Post Violating Human Rights?
It may not be a case of naked human rights violation, but the Huffington Post’s UK launch certainly smacks of 1984 by Orwell, in manipulation of its readership.
My grouse is simple. To be able to read what is published, anywhere, must be a universal right irrespective of where you live. Since several days, every time I try to log in to http://huffingtonpost.com, from an IP address in the United Kingdom as I had always done, it redirects me to http://huffingtonpost.co.uk, without any instructions on how to log in to the original site.
I have waited a few days patiently to see if this is a technical error or if the Huff Post will provide alternate ways of logging in to the original site, but it looks like the intention of the blog is clear, horses for courses as we say in the UK, different blog editions for different sides of the Atlantic. It looks like Arianna Huffington has taken it on herself what anyone trying to read Huffington Post in the UK should see or not see.
I don’t know about other UK readers of the Huff post, but if I need local News, I have the BBC, Guardian, The Daily Mail, Sun and The News Of the World, until today that is. Like many others, I need the Huff Post to read what happens on the other side of the Atlantic. Besides I have my own reasons to like the United States!
The high handedness with which the Huff Post is attempting to force itself on the UK readers raises the question whether the Blog is now merely an instrument in the commercial plans of its acquirer AOL to expand to new shores.
Is it just a coincidence that Arianna Huffington flew down to launch the Huffington Post for the British a few days before Rupert Murdoch flew in to the UK to close down the 168 years old British Tabloid News of the World? It looks more like the Huff Post trying to pick up where the NoW left!
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