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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/02/190225.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

SaveYourInternet.eu – Citizens set to prevent upload filters in the EU - https://edri.org/saveyourinternet-eu-citizens-set-prevent-upload-filters-eu/ "The final vote in the European Parliament may take place as early as March" #article13

‘Beyond insane’: why one woman fears no-deal Brexit could kill her - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/26/beyond-insane-why-one-woman-fears-no-deal-brexit-could-kill-her there will be many like her

‘Half-Naked and Barefoot:’ Chechens, Ingush Recall 1944 Deportations - https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakhstan-chechens-soviet-deportations/29791754.html heart-breaking stuff, deserves to be better-known what happened

Oberster Datenschützer warnt vor Uploadfiltern - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/oberster-datenschuetzer-warnt-vor-uploadfiltern/ wichtig #artikel13

Beaker: the Decentralized Read-Write Browser - https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/beaker-decentralized-read-write-browser this looks very interesting

Piracy Is Driven By Availability & Price, People Prefer Not to Break the Law, ISP Study Says - https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-driven-by-availability-price-isp-says-190226/ as do many others

Surprise: #Uganda's New Social Media Tax Seems To Have Led To Fewer People Using The Internet, And Total Value Of Mobile Transactions To Drop - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190219/09155241630/surprise-ugandas-new-social-media-tax-seems-to-have-led-to-fewer-people-using-internet-total-value-mobile-transactions-to-drop.shtml

Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy - https://www.blog.google/technology/ai/machine-learning-can-boost-value-wind-energy/ sensible #AI #renewables

“In recent years, discussions in #Italy about automation have increased both at the institutional level and by the public at large.” - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/automating-society-italy/ useful survey #ai

A “Compromise” that Fails to Deliver – Our Overall Assessment of the Directive Remains Negative - http://infojustice.org/archives/40874 “As long as #Article13 remains part of the package, the only sensible way forward it to make sure that Directive will be rejected by the European Parliament”

A finance industry group is pushing an intentionally broken cryptography “standard” called ETS - https://boingboing.net/2019/02/26/monumental-recklessness.html whoa, what a bad move

Renewable energy policies actually work - https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/renewable-energy-policies-actually-work/ interesting