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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130223 - http://bit.ly/YnAimB yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Killer robots must be stopped - http://bit.ly/Yu8gUl too right; but will other killer robot - the military-industrial complex - let us?

Montana Bill Would Give Corporations The Right To Vote - http://bit.ly/123lGPByou can't make this stuff up #us

Fifty years ago today I met John Cleese - http://bit.ly/XtCyKZ evocative piece from Eric Idle on the roots of #MontyPython (v @Eaterofsun)

UK's top cardinal accused of 'inappropriate acts' by priests - http://bit.ly/YPPiZhwow, just in time for the papal enclave #hypocrisy

NASCAR blocks eyewitness video of Daytona crash, but YouTube reverses the takedown - http://bit.ly/XtCVFf don't miss #nascar's "excuse"

RT @TransformDrugs Teenage sports star hanged himself over 50p worth of cannabis: The Sun http://dlvr.it/30BKgh >>*legalise* it now

Motorola Surprises Microsoft - The Germany-Seattle-FTC FRAND Saga Continues - http://bit.ly/XtDzT8 what a soap opera

Presse-LSR scheitert wohl an EU-Orchideenrecht - http://bit.ly/123ntEb looks potentially significant #lsr

U.S. wants Wikileaks shut down - will recruit hackers for help -http://bit.ly/123nyrJ playing with fire here, chaps

Malware on oil rig computers raises security fears - http://bit.ly/WbKhPD well, stop just using Windows, & diversify computing environment

Dead Megaupload Still Has Millions of Visitors - http://bit.ly/XNZXpp amazing example of digital momentum

Tory MP warned of powerful paedophile ring 30 years ago -http://ind.pn/15GfXy9 (v @LifeinSicily @Seville_Writer“@tom_watson)#uk

WebRTC – Ringing A Mobile Phone Near You - http://bit.ly/ZrTxMP "WebRTC goes beyond VoIP and video conferencing, with no plugins" #mozilla

Will Spotify build the copyright star? - http://bit.ly/123tqkx will the music industry finally get it? (v @remixtures @Copytwilight)

US Reps Start Intellectual Property Caucus - http://bit.ly/Zs2dCR 'cos everyone know #copyright & #patents are underprotected #maximalism

Only Gandalf can protect Europe from the Unitary Patent - http://bit.ly/15Gt5TQa trifle long, but lots of interesting stuff #swpats #eu

What price freedom with Labour's stance on #libel? - http://bit.ly/X4q4tx shame shame shame on #Labour (v @martaruco @asteris) 

BitTorrent Site Admin Hits Out at UK Music Industry Site Blocking Demand -http://bit.ly/ZBFwQo kudos: he's quoting #Tacitus

#Zambia: Chinese Experts to Monitor Internet? - http://bit.ly/Yq3E5J worrying, although the West isn't much better #surveillance #china

#Hitler 'Downfall' parodies removed from YouTube - http://bit.ly/XyCgiI where#copyright inevitably leads (v @davewiner @jeffjarvis)

The trouble with #TED talks - http://bit.ly/135vFDu fine, justified take-down of a format whose time has gone (if it ever came) (v @McDawg)

No celebrations here: why the White House public access policy sucks -http://bit.ly/WjZadm what he said (v @McDawg)#openaccess

Urgent! Help Stop The Destruction Of Bulgarian Nature - http://bit.ly/13DHwEtonce it's gone, it's gone (v ‏@mkpetkova @asteris)#bulgaria

Blaze Your Own Path: #FirefoxOS partners site - http://bit.ly/YoFGGh an impressive start: can it build on it? (v @storming)

Euro-deputies weaken data protection law - http://bit.ly/ZBZP05 good analysis (v @futureidentity @alexanderhanff @clarinette02)#privacy

Πολλές μικρές ACTA απειλούν την ελευθερία στο Διαδίκτυο -http://bit.ly/YuGhnH good summary of main threats (v @YBoyio)#TAFTA#CETA #TPP

White House Press Sec. Told Not To Acknowledge Drone Program Exists -http://huff.to/15H8Jdm people just imagined getting killed (v @drones)

We should aspire to a Global Knowledge #Commons - http://bit.ly/W3qt15aspire? no: demand it... 

Global allies give #Mozilla's #Firefox OS a mobile foothold -http://cnet.co/W3vGGf good, detailed report #smartphones

"shape global intellectual property, Internet commerce in ways that work to advantage of UUS companies" - http://wapo.st/UY0yGq #TAFTA #TPP

#HP switches to Android for $169 Slate 7, phones planned too -http://cnet.co/YQJAX7 pretty significant moves

Tell @edfenergy 2 drop legal action against No Dash 4 Gas activists -http://chn.ge/Xz6Ngm maybe it prefers PR disaster (v @GeorgeMonbiot)

EPA Contaminated by Conflict of Interest - http://to.pbs.org/XQfCV4 "borrowed from the Big Tobacco playbook, using science to create doubt"

#AU Public servants baulk at #FOI changes - http://bit.ly/ZtksYD hello? public servants as in serving the public? (v @piecritic)

#TPP: a gateway to GE? - http://bit.ly/Yv7Ddl of course, and resistance will be impossible thanks to investor-state provisions #NZ