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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/06/180619.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

The EU is about to “end everything that’s good and pure about the internet” - https://boingboing.net/2018/06/19/your-last-chance.html all at the behest of a greedy #copyright industry, whose sense of entitlement knows no bounds

“Wah wah” – @CLewandowski_ mocks ten-year-old girl with Down Syndrome being taken from her mother - https://boingboing.net/2018/06/19/wah-wah-corey-lewandows.html what utter scum: how does he bear to look in the mirror…?

President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create A ‘Space Force’ In What Is Surely Not Any Kind Of Distraction From Crying Children - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180619/09534040066/president-trump-directs-pentagon-to-create-space-force-what-is-surely-not-any-kind-distraction-crying-children.shtml no, sirreee

More tigers live in US back yards than in the wild. Is this a catastrophe? - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2018/jun/20/more-tigers-live-in-us-back-yards-than-in-the-wild-is-this-a-catastrophe madness

We can still win: Next steps for the #CopyrightDirective - https://edri.org/next-steps-copyright-directive-article-13/ good explanation and timeline; we can still stop this madness…

The European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee Voted for the #Article13 #CensorshipMachine: What Happens Next? - https://saveyourinternet.eu/the-european-parliament-legal-affairs-committee-voted-for-the-article-13-censorshipmachine-what-happens-next/ important background info on what happens next, and what we do next…

EU votes for copyright law that would make internet a ‘tool for control’ - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/20/eu-votes-for-copyright-law-that-would-make-internet-a-tool-for-control " @AxelVossMdEP: “No one is and no one will ever filter the internet". this is precisely what #article13 will impose; the man’s clueless about tech.

European Parliament Committee’s Vote in Favor of Copyright Law Threatens Online Speech and Innovation - https://cdt.org/press/european-parliament-committee-vote-in-favor-copyright-law-threats-online-speech-innovation/ #SaveTheInternet

Wireless Carriers Hope You Won’t Notice Their Location Data Scandal Makes The Facebook, Cambridge Fracas Look Like Amateur Hour - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180619/11155440068/wireless-carriers-hope-you-wont-notice-their-location-data-scandal-makes-facebook-cambridge-fracas-look-like-amateur-hour.shtml good analysis of important issue

Police officer caught making over 16,000 privacy violations in police registers; charged with electronic trespassing - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/06/police-officer-caught-over-16000-privacy-violations-in-police-registers-charged-electronic-trespassing/ but they say we can trust the police to have access to this info

President Trump Overturns Obama’s National Ocean Policy - https://usa.oceana.org/press-releases/president-trump-overturns-obamas-national-ocean-policy what a monster trump is: his name will live in infamy…

EU Parliamentary Committee Votes To Put American Internet Giants In Charge Of What Speech Is Allowed Online - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180620/10063840078/eu-parliamentary-committee-votes-to-put-american-internet-giants-charge-what-speech-is-allowed-online.shtml #CopyrightDirective #Article13

The EU’s Terrible, Internet-Wrecking Copyright Plan Lurches Forward - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjbazn/the-eus-terrible-internet-wrecking-copyright-plan-lurches-forward #CopyrightDirective #article13

Warner Bros. Turns Harry Potter Fan Events Into Events For The Franchise That Must Not Be Named - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180619/10130740067/warner-bros-turns-harry-potter-fan-events-into-events-franchise-that-must-not-be-named.shtml just imagine what carnage #article13 will wreak on #fanfic in the EU…