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Liberal.ie goes off line.

Losty Dublin

The well known website has gone down today. It's Facebook page which is well known for it's competitions and that recently played host to a passionate post from editor and founder Leo Sherlock accusing unknown persons of running a hate campaign against it, states that it is "currently completing a scheduled necessary technical update.". It has been down since 12PM today and is still down at the time of writing.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/controversial-website-the-liberal-has-become-inaccessible-1.2930280

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9or10

Oh dear.

Mouseslayer17

No loss.

frag420

no big loss, the founder is a knob with no journalistic integrity at all!

Peregrine

Good riddance.

GLaDOS

Excellent

Duff

His Twitter profile was glorious before he made it private. Seems like a toss-pot of the highest order.

The Backwards Man

Famous for its competitions?

That's a bit of a euphemism!

Ineedaname

Apparently it's a "scheduled necessary technical update"

Copy and paste buttons must not be working.

OldMrBrennan83

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Fr_Dougal

Patww79 wrote: »

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Seems to work ok for The Journal.

mullyboyee

Patww79 wrote: »

Haven't they been caught out just ripping stories from other sites and republishing them word for word as their own?

Allegedly caught rapid and dealing with the consequences.

lertsnim

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Seems to work ok for The Journal.

But without the journal how ever will we know the 15 reasons why its cool to be from somewhere or when the latest viral sensation hits?

OldMrBrennan83

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lertsnim

Patww79 wrote: »

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Isn't it all part of The Journal? It wouldn't surprise me if the first thing they do in the morning is see what can be copied from Reddit.

OldMrBrennan83

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arayess

i like the liberal cos it upsets the PC types

SteM

I think they were one of my 3 followers on Twitter!

B_Wayne

arayess wrote: »

i like the liberal cos it upsets the PC types

I have no problem with freedom of speech, right to publish whatever you want. I do have a problem with a media outlet using another journalist's content without their permission and passing it off as original.

PopePalpatine

mullyboyee wrote: »

Allegedly caught rapid and dealing with the consequences.

Yep, CCC Nuacht have launched a lawsuit against them for plagiarism.

Well, I shouldn't say "them"...the site is registered as a sole trader with Leo Sherlock as its owner.

GLaDOS

B_Wayne wrote: »

I have no problem with freedom of speech, right to publish whatever you want. I do have a problem with a media outlet using another journalist's content without their permission and passing it off as original.

To be fair, sometimes they just make stuff up

Clarebelly

Yer mans sister is linked to the iona institute, so no loss.

https://twitter.com/corasherlock

Peregrine

Bad news for the winners of all their iPhone giveaways though :pac:

RayM

Ineedaname wrote: »

Apparently it's a "scheduled necessary technical update"

Copy and paste buttons must not be working.

Destroying the evidence, more like. Someone should tell Leo that's not how the internet works.

My favourite thing about The Liberal was when the marriage equality referendum passed, they didn't even report it. Months of awful opinion pieces on the subject (some claiming to have been written by 'young mothers' and 'concerned primary school teachers', but all written in the barely-literate style of Leo Sherlock himself), and then... nothing whatsoever.

hairyslug

Clarebelly wrote: »

Yer mans sister is linked to the iona institute, so no loss.

https://twitter.com/corasherlock

The whole family is at it.

C. Montgomery Gurns

Patww79 wrote: »

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I never quite get this accusation, I've never seen it. Any Liberal.ie article I regrettably ever read was so badly composed and full of grammatical and spelling errors that it could quite literally have come from nowhere else. I'm all for an independent right leaning media in this country to counter the mainstream but the Liberal is semi literate at best.

OldMrBrennan83

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B_Wayne

C. Montgomery Gurns wrote: »

I never quite get this accusation, I've never seen it. Any Liberal.ie article I regrettably ever read was so badly composed and full of grammatical and spelling errors that it could quite literally have come from nowhere else. I'm all for an independent right leaning media in this country to counter the mainstream but the Liberal is semi literate at best.

There's a fair few examples here. Plenty of journalists that have faced the issue.

http://www.dublininquirer.com/2016/05/31/sam-steal-this-article/

topmanamillion

Was this not part of the fall out of them publishing an entirely facbricated and racist article about an an alleged riot between 2 large groups of men with African origins?
A few journalists looked into and spoke to Guards in the area.
No incidents reported. No witnesses. No damage.
Its a Daily Mail wanna be. Good riddance, hope the owner is sued from here until the end of time.

Grayson

topmanamillion wrote: »

Was this not part of the fall out of them publishing an entirely facbricated and racist article about an an alleged riot between 2 large groups of men with African origins?
A few journalists looked into and spoke to Guards in the area.
No incidents reported. No witnesses. No damage.
Its a Daily Mail wanna be. Good riddance, hope the owner is sued from here until the end of time.

It's a Breitbart wanna be. The guy sounds like a Steve Bannon wanna be.

Incidentally Breitbart ran a similar story about Germany over the holidays. Got some facts, blew them up and created a whole new story with a racist twist.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/07/german-police-quash-breitbart-story-of-mob-setting-fire-to-dortmund-church

GLaDOS

topmanamillion wrote: »

Was this not part of the fall out of them publishing an entirely facbricated and racist article about an an alleged riot between 2 large groups of men with African origins?
A few journalists looked into and spoke to Guards in the area.
No incidents reported. No witnesses. No damage.
Its a Daily Mail wanna be. Good riddance, hope the owner is sued from here until the end of time.

The Independent originally reported about the "riot", the liberal then picked it up and added the racial twist to it, because that's their agenda.