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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 180412 - https://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2018/04/180412.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Hungarian journalists admit role in forging anti-migrant ‘atmosphere of fear’ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/13/hungary-journalists-state-tv-network-migrants-viktor-orban-government they are not journalists, they are propagandists #hungary

WHOIS Limits Under GDPR Will Make Pirates Harder to Catch, Groups Fear - https://torrentfreak.com/whois-limits-under-gdpr-will-make-pirates-harder-to-catch-groups-fear-180413/ doesn’t matter: protecting privacy is much more important than chasing a few unauthorised downloads

High fines and collective redress planned under EU consumer law reforms - https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2018/april/businesses-eu-penalties-consumer-law-breaches/ won’t apply to post-#brexit UK, of course #racetothebottom

Massive lode of rare-earth metals found in Japanese waters - https://boingboing.net/2018/04/12/massive-lode-of-rare-earth-met.html

UK Police Use Postcode Profiles, Garden Size And First Names For #AI-Based Custody Decision System - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180409/09125639594/uk-police-use-zipcode-profiles-garden-size-first-names-ai-based-custody-decision-system.shtml sounds legit

Canadian Music Industry Confirms Once More That For Copyright Companies, Enough Is Never Enough - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180412/07461039611/canadian-music-industry-confirms-once-more-that-copyright-companies-enough-is-never-enough.shtml the #copyright ratchet strikes again #ca

Pourquoi la réforme européenne du droit d’auteur est une menace pour le logiciel libre — et comment lutter contre - https://www.april.org/article-de-glyn-moody-paru-dans-linux-journal-pourquoi-la-reforme-europeenne-du-droit-d-auteur-est-u

Go away, kid, you bother me: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla kick W3C nerds to the curb - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/13/apple_google_microsoft_and_mozilla_kick_w3c_to_the_curb/ maybe selling out over DRM in HTML wasn’t such a clever move, eh @w3c?