Twitter pledges to clamp down on trolls

Probably just a brief glitch, LL, wierdness has been happening:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35204915

All the BBC's websites were unavailable early on Thursday morning because of a large web attack.
The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors to the site saw an error message rather than webpages.
Sources within the BBC said the sites were offline thanks to what is known as a "distributed denial of service" attack.
An earlier statement tweeted by the BBC laid the blame for problems on a "technical issue".
In the message the corporation said it was aware of the ongoing trouble and was working to fix it so sites, services and pages were reachable again.
At midday it released another statement saying that the BBC website was now "operating normally".
"We apologise for any inconvenience you may have experienced," it said.
The BBC has yet to confirm or deny that such an attack was responsible for the problems.

Attack traffic
It is now believed that a web attack technique known as a "distributed denial of service" was causing the patchy response. This aims to knock a site offline by swamping it with more traffic than it can handle.
The attack on the BBC hit the main website as well as associated services including the main iPlayer catch-up service and iPlayer Radio app which were also not working properly.
Social media reaction to the trouble was swift. Many urged the BBC to get the site back up quickly and lamented how long it was taking to fix the technical troubles.
By 1030 GMT the site was largely working again though some pages and indexes took longer than normal to load.
The BBC's crop of websites have suffered other technical problems in the past. In July 2014, the iPlayer and many of its associated sites were offline for almost an entire weekend.
That fault was traced to a database that sits behind the catch-up TV service.

BBC World News on TV here was off for about 2 hours this afternoon. LL

If they have not posted it before the end of January 2016, we will believe he has spent it all on beer and shrimps, oh and the ladies.

Until each and every one of them is DEMANDING to see the Gonzo Fund accounts, then they can all STFU with their endless whining, inventions and downright lies about the Find Madeleine Fund. IMO, Lol.

Seconded!

That they don't shows there is something to hide.

Quote from: stephen25000 on Today at 12:33:04 PM
Incorrect.

Why do you persist in pointless arguments ?

The facts of the apology can be seen by any guest or poster on this forum for themselves, as it is stated in the Algarve Resident.

What kind of thicko hater quotes Hounder Donn, the serial fantastist as a Sauce, when the truth is freely available on the IPSO site?    

https://www.ipso.co.uk/IPSO/rulings/resolution-statements/detail.html?id=57

7. The newspaper published the following correction in its Amplifications and Clarifications column:

On the 29 April 2015 we published a headline on the front page which said “Maddy detective did lie about death cover up claim”. We would like to make it clear that there was no determination by the Portuguese court that Mr Amaral lied. In fact what the court decided was that Mr Amaral had breached the McCanns’ right to reputation and ordered him to pay damages to them.

8. The complainant said these actions resolved the matter to his satisfaction.

9. As the complaint was successfully mediated, the Complaints Committee did not make a determination as to whether there had been any breach of the Code.

There was NO apology at any point. Except in the addled 'minds' of Bennett and his ilk, and pretendy churnalist Donn, who is notorious for getting her endlessly-inaccurate 'news' from Hounder Central.

I forced myself to reread Donn's propaganda; not only is she NOT accurately quoting the IPSO statement, especially this bit:

The newspaper accepted that the headline on the front page was inaccurate, and agreed that the truth of Mr Amaral’s claims were not examined during the trial. However, it did not accept that the front page headline represented a significant inaccuracy because the article itself did not report that the detective had lied, and was an accurate interpretation of the judgment. It said the headline had been written by a sub-editor who, in summarising the position of the Portuguese court, had made an assumption that the decision had been based on the truth of Mr Amaral’s claims, which is usually the case in English libel law.

or this bit:


9. As the complaint was successfully mediated, the Complaints Committee did not make a determination as to whether there had been any breach of the Code.

she is getting all her 'information' from Bennett, whom she foolishly quotes throughout.

Worth remembering that Bennett took a long time to post the full statement - this site carried it long before he did.

Possibly because there was NO apology, as is being falsely claimed by haters.

On the 29 April 2015 we published a headline on the front page which said “Maddy detective did lie about death cover up claim”. We would like to make it clear that there was no determination by the Portuguese court that Mr Amaral lied. In fact what the court decided was that Mr Amaral had breached the McCanns’ right to reputation and ordered him to pay damages to them.

Should probably have read:

GONZO MADE UP MALICIOUS SH*TE TO HURT MCCANN FAMILY.

Lol.

Even Mr. Bennett admitted that he didn't get what he wanted, but decided not to pursue it in case he lost.

The full, genuine statement is freely available online. No-one in their right mind would put any trust in Bennett's less than honest version, which his fellow forumite Donn then regurgitated, without bothering to do the most basic fact-checking.

It's not the first time she's done something like this - I suppose this clunking propaganda gives them hope, or something equally stupid. Lol.

Doesn't that Donne Character write for some amateur published local rag?

Yes, Algarve pitchforker, or something like that....most of her 'news' is little more than internet gossip culled from the Hounders. She was responsible for this bilge a while back:



Natasha Donn, Edition 707 ( 7 Dec 2011)

You wouldn’t miss him in a crowd. Gonçalo Amaral, 52, is strikingly tall with a penchant for hats. He was wearing a long black coat, a black fedora and a bright red scarf when we met him on the terrace of Casa Inglesa in Portimão. He looked much more like an intellectual than a former police officer, but these days his life is spent largely writing - an activity he’s come to love as much as the police work that used to fill his days.

Pass the sick bucket......

OMG.....what a load of crap. She must have the hots for him. Maybe Stephen does too.

STRIKINGLY TALL?   INTELLECTUAL?  I gotta get me some glasses, I mean, I am strkingly tall and very intellectual but Amaral?   No way, he's a fat, ugly midget with smelly breath (beer and shrimps make for bad mix),   LL    

If she thinks he is tall, what does that make her? A midget?

lily wrote:If she thinks he is tall, what does that make her?  A midget?  

A very short sighted midget.

Sabot wrote:

lily wrote:If she thinks he is tall, what does that make her?  A midget?  

A very short sighted midget.

Average height of Portuguese males in Amaral's age range is 5ft 7-8inches, ie a foot shorter than me. LL

Shorter than me, too.

Me too....

Just think Bonny, if we wore heels we could look down on him but LL needs no heels.

If Madeleine wasn't abducted then KATE's DIARY is LIES and money receieved under FALSE PRETENSES!
Post HiDeHo Today at 9:55 am

Do they never tire of saying the same things, over and over and over again, and always being wrong? Wake up and smell the coffee, stupid haters!

They are all desperate. They can smell the coffee. The end looms.

They all seem to be waiting with bated breath for The McCanns to be arrested. Nine long years does suggest some remarkable hatred over common sense.

But never mind, when it doesn't happen it will all be back to Conspiracy.

Amaral will lose The Libel Case. Count to ten, if it takes that long, and off they will all go again. I could even write the script for them.

bb1 wrote:

Brilliant.

http://davidbretisagod.forumotion.co.uk/t1336-sykes-take-on-a-new-year-already-in-turmoil

One thing we can be sure of.

Because they prefer pitchfork-waving to fact-checking, we can be sure that the haters will continue to make complete fools of themselves, and provide us with much fine entertainment.