About kino.ie — editorial policy & takedown procedure

What kino.ie is

kino.ie is a long-form, evergreen archive of Irish internet culture and online drama. It is the companion site to lads.ie, which covers the same material in newsroom format — fast takes on what's happening this week. kino.ie is the archive layer, where long arcs, methodology pieces, and (eventually) personality dossiers live.

The voice draws on the Kino Casino tradition — the Irish-Canadian podcast hosted by Andrew Warski with PPP/Ashton Parks, which set the tonal template for online-personality commentary as a format. We are not affiliated with that podcast. The influence is tonal, not licensed.

The editorial frame

kino.ie operates inside three rules. They're not optional and they don't bend.

1. Receipts before assertions

Every claim about a named person is anchored to a public-record receipt — a recorded stream or podcast episode, broadcast footage from a verifiable broadcaster, a captured public post with archive.org snapshot, or a court / regulator filing. The full receipts standard is published at /the-receipts-standard.html. If a receipt fails the standard, it doesn't appear.

2. Conduct, not character

Pages describe what subjects said or did. They do not describe who subjects are as people. "X said Y on a stream on date Z" is a conduct claim. "X is a narcissist" is a character claim. The first goes on the page; the second does not. Where opinion appears in the prose, it is flagged with hedges ("seems to", "reads as") and labelled as the author's interpretation, not a finding.

3. Public figures only

kino.ie writes about public figures — broadcasters, politicians, established creators with substantial public records, public commentators. We do not write personality pages on private individuals. The threshold for "public figure" is documented at /coverage-scope.html; in practice it requires multi-year public material, verified accounts, and an established media or political role.

Takedown procedure

Anyone — subject, third party, lawyer — can request that material on kino.ie be reviewed, corrected, or removed. The procedure is below. It is published in advance because that is how an archive earns the right to be taken seriously.

72-hour SLA. Email takedown@kino.ie with the URL of the page in question and the specific claim you dispute. We respond within 72 hours of receipt. Where a claim cannot be sourced to a receipt that meets our published standard, the claim is removed pending review. Where a claim is sourced but the sourcing is challenged, we publish a correction note alongside the original receipt and assess whether the receipt still holds.

What you'll need to provide

The URL of the page on kino.ie.
A direct quote of the disputed claim.
The basis of the dispute — factual error, missing context, contested attribution, or a request to be excluded entirely.
Optional: any documentation that supports the dispute. Court orders, original recordings, broadcaster transcripts.

What we won't do

Remove a sourced public-record receipt because the subject is unhappy with it. The point of an archive is that the public record persists. If a receipt holds the standard, it stays.
Negotiate paid takedowns. There are no paid takedowns on this site. Any approach offering payment for removal of unflattering material will be ignored.
Reveal the identity of any non-public source. We do not collect anonymous tips for personality pages — every receipt is public-record by design — but a third-party tipster pointing us at a publicly-broadcast moment is treated as a source whose identity is not relevant to the work.

Independence and funding

kino.ie carries no display advertising and no sponsored content. There is no paid promotion of subjects on this site, ever — meaning no subject can pay to appear on a page or to influence how a page reads. Long-form pieces may eventually move behind a Patreon or membership tier; that funding model does not allow subjects to alter the editorial.

What kino.ie is not

Not a news site. If you're looking for what's happening this week, that's lads.ie.
Not a tabloid. Receipts standard is high; rumour and forum chatter are not receipts.
Not a doxxing site. Personal addresses, phone numbers, family members, anything that doesn't already live in the public record stays out.
Not a forum. Comments are deferred indefinitely. The moderation cost is incompatible with the receipts standard.
Not affiliated with Kino Casino. The podcast inspired the format; we are not licensed by, partnered with, or financially connected to Andrew Warski, Ashton Parks, or any associated production.

Reach us

General contact: hello@kino.ie. Takedown and corrections: takedown@kino.ie. The full contact page includes a form for less urgent enquiries.