boo hoo. Canada's "Free Dominion" shut down over libel.

[cali]

OTTAWA — The online political forum, Free Dominion, has shut down after a wholesale defeat in a libel case brought by Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman.

A jury concluded that Warman was maliciously defamed by four commentators on Free Dominion, a website that bills itself as “the voice of principled conservatism.”

Warman has been awarded more than $127,000 in general damages, aggravated damages, punitive damages and court costs because of 41 defamatory statements published on the conservative website in 2007.

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http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Conservative+website+shuttered+after+libel+ruling/9441201/story.html

and here's one of the owners whining over at Free Republic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3116989/posts

[okaawhatever]

1. That, my friends, is how it's done. nt