Huff Post Sued For $105 Million

[AZKing]

A former Huffington Post blogger has filed a $105-million class-action lawsuit against AOL and the Huffington Post media Web site on behalf of fellow unpaid bloggers whom he characterized as "modern-day slaves on Arianna Huffington's plantation."

Jonathon Tasini filed the suit Tuesday on behalf of more than 9,000 bloggers in a New York federal court. Tasini blogged for the Huffington Post from late 2005 to Feb. 10 of this year, just a few days after AOL announced it was acquiring the Web site for $315 million.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383472,00.asp

video: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/04/17/rs.columns.huffington.lawsuit.cnn?hpt=T2

[TheNcredibleEgg]

Frivolous.

They all knew when they began postings blogs on HuffPo that there was no direct payment involved. Just because HuffPo sold itself, doesn't suddenly alter the original agreement.

[specsaregood]

Comparing people that volunteered to work for free to slavery is a bit of a stretch and should be considered rather insulting to the history of slavery.

[Dr.3D]

Sour grapes....

Sounds like a guy who slept with a whore is upset she sold herself.

[BlackTerrel]

Comparing people that volunteered to work for free to slavery is a bit of a stretch and should be considered rather insulting to the history of slavery.

+1. Exactly what I was going to say.

You agreed to write for free. You don't want to write stop writing. No one is whipping you and forcing you to go back and write more.

[Cowlesy]

bwhaahahahahaha --- i love this. Thing of beauty.

Eat your own you stinkin leftists.