121205

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 121204 - http://bit.ly/TIJ5x0  yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Why The #ITU's Plans To Divert Money To Lazy Telcos Will Slow Internet Buildout, Not Increase It - http://bit.ly/RA2p3p surprise #wcit

Letter to President Barroso on the need for #copyright reform -http://bit.ly/UF8mLk excellent move by enlightened MEPs (v @kkomaitis)

How Crash Cover-Up Altered #China’s Succession - http://nyti.ms/TIK1RZfascinating & important story (v @hofrench @markmackinnon) 

Wirtschaftsminister fordern Aussetzung der #GEMA-Reform -http://bit.ly/UF9PkT this is desperately needed (v @moltke)

EU urged to choose transatlantic convergence on data protection -http://bit.ly/YNBG5s US diplomat calls EU approach "pretentious" #arrogant

Greece scores worse than Bulgaria in corruption ranking - http://bit.ly/R6JMEdthis is not good

#Israel rebuked for not allowing IAEA inspections - http://bit.ly/VjwXlF definitely not hiding nuclear weapons anywhere, oh no....

#TPP cartoon competition winners announced - http://bit.ly/Xp6lpe dark humour

#WCIT: Put off to tomorrow what you can't do today - http://bit.ly/VlDCeA good summary of what happened yesterday #ITU

#Amazon Offers Kindle Owners All-You-Can-Eat Kids’ Content -http://on.mash.to/RAWon4 I see what you did there

Ridiculous: SEC Boss Refused To Move Forward On Required Crowdfunding Rules To Protect Her 'Legacy' - http://bit.ly/QGAeOM pathetic

US bid to limit UN regulatory treaty to telecom companies and not Internet firms fails early test - http://tnw.co/UnlbHS early days #wcit

Maritime Union Links To Building “Trans–Pacific Opposition” -http://bit.ly/QGB1PH certainly needed #tpp

European Commission decision to label #palmoil 'sustainable' threatens Indonesia's forests - http://bit.ly/WID4kp stupid & shameful

Analysts are bad at their jobs: IDC cuts its Windows Phone forecast by 40% in just 181 days - http://tnw.co/UebHwp people are noticing

California Eyeing #Drone Surveillance - http://bit.ly/SLWWmQ and certainly not alone in doing so: this is our future...

An EU patent as solid as the Euro? - http://bit.ly/WIRu44 good to see the#greens on the case #unitarypatent #fiasco

Open Letter To The Members Of The Parliament regarding #UnitaryPatent -http://bit.ly/Yzklye important initiative from @eva_lichti here #EU

Latest #TPP Round Locks Out Public Interest Groups Who Flew To New Zealand; Gives Them 15 Minutes Of Access - http://bit.ly/R79Dfj insulting

Verschärfte Aufsicht: China will Vorabkontrolle von Smartphone-Apps -http://bit.ly/QGSh7w part of a continuing series... #surveillance

#UnitaryPatent: crazy schedule ahead, MEPs asked to take a step back and think it through - http://bit.ly/TJ4cze this is being rammed thro'

New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes -http://bit.ly/VvRKrV eeek #security

Digital Rights Groups Shut Out of Secret #TPP Negotiations -http://bit.ly/TBWWor more details, plus statement from NGOs

Konferenz von Doha: Obama verspielt Klimaschutz-Kredit - http://bit.ly/TPvEe3history will judge him harshly for this

Greens/EFA amendments to the EU #UnitaryPatent - http://bit.ly/VCsKva some really good ideas: pl. write to MEPs about this

¿Por qué es importante la #transparencia institucional en la era de Internet? -http://bit.ly/YOdKip lots of good reasons here (v @platoniq)

Complaint To Brussels Prosecutor Put BitTorrent Domains In Peril -http://bit.ly/TC9ThS strange how this is never done openly

EU Commission on modernising #copyright in digital economy -http://bit.ly/YzOj5l "stakeholders" must include public (v @RyanHeathEU)

Researchers: PATRIOT Act Can 'Obtain' Data In Europe - http://bit.ly/TPAKXEno suprise, but #cloudcomputing infrastructure needs changing

EU Parliamentary Committee questions #EFSA's integrity - http://bit.ly/VCDycNMEPs' response is encouraging here #transparency

EU Resists ‘Extreme’ US Lobbying As Data Privacy War Brews -http://bit.ly/YA7r2Y cheek (v @PaulbernalUK @bendrath)#EUdataP 

Have you been a digital angel? - http://bit.ly/SxMG1N good to see #opensource& #opendata being mentioned by key people (v @NeelieKroesEU)

Richard Stallman: ‘Apple has tightest digital handcuffs in history’ -http://bit.ly/WJpQUC #RMS on freedom, succinctly (v @JamesKelseyFry)

Activision's Call of Duty Hits $1 Billion in Sales in 15 Days -http://dthin.gs/11UrzL0 "faster than the movie 'Avatar' " #strawsinthewind

Report on a Digital Freedom Strategy in EU Foreign Policy -http://bit.ly/RBXvTp lots of great ideas from @MarietjeD66 and her group

#Genomics revolution: UK could miss the boat, scientists warn -http://bit.ly/VklqlV hugely important area (v @raycorrigan)#dna

Why Copyright Shouldn't Be Considered Property... And Why A Return To 1790 Copyright May Be Desirable - http://bit.ly/XqS9vU some key points

Zoom-Zoom - http://bit.ly/TCDuHX nice post about, well, nothing much; but still nice

Windows Phone #DroidRage Twitter Stunt Blows Up In Microsoft's Face -http://bit.ly/TCDFTNinevtiably: this technique never works

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Closed Negotiations Against the Open Knowledge Economy - http://osf.to/TIdj5i "release the draft texts." #TPP

Pirate Bay spin-off site Promo Bay to be unblocked - http://bbc.in/11FuhVI so it was blocked on purpose (v @technollama)#bpi #censorship

Activity of Apple, Google and other companies in the #WebKit project -http://bit.ly/SyfLdt very interesting stats: who's top? (v @jgbarah)

Indian Village Bans Unmarried Women And Girls From Using Mobile Phones -http://bit.ly/TR7DmO worried about losing dominance much?

MPAA: Megaupload Shutdown Was Massive Success - http://bit.ly/UflqT1 they think it's over?

Bristol University's Christian Union Bans Women From Speaking At Meetings -http://huff.to/TKkWWI can't believe this is in #UK (v @tug)

Bristol University Christian Union: Women speakers now allowed at all events -http://bit.ly/SNSxjm that was quick... (v Graeme_L)

COMMUNIA Positive Agenda for the Public Domain - http://bit.ly/UopqmD good to see #PD supported

US Hypocrisy: Supports Open Dialog On Internet Governance At #WCIT; But Full Secrecy At Parallel #TPP Negotiations - http://bit.ly/11W3Ryc

a reminder that hacker & #cc volunteer Bassel Khartabil is still missing in Syria - http://bit.ly/NJhBcG (v @URCHN_LIBRE)#freebassel

Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet -http://bit.ly/R8PyoP stunning? hardly. useful? certainly.