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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/03/190301.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Europe is a museum – we are the future of farming, says US ambassador - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/03/01/britain-should-embrace-us-farming-methods-agree-trade-deal-says/ no, your farms are the world’s worst animal abusers, indifferent to the quality of the dirty meat they produce: https://www.theguardian.com/animals-farmed/2018/feb/21/dirty-meat-shocking-hygiene-failings-discovered-in-us-pig-and-chicken-plants #brexit #ttip

here’s a way to tell the EU you hate #article13. this is a general consultation on the future of the EU - https://ec.europa.eu/consultation/runner/Future-of-Europe I’ve just filled it in (takes 5 minutes), mentioning the #eucopyright directive wherever I can. please do the same, and RT - let’s tell 'em.

Brexit trade deal would allow US to ‘run riot’ with the #NHS, warn campaigners - https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/american-trade-deal-with-donald-trump-risks-nhs-1-5913241 well, obvs #brexitchaos

NZ Study Yet Again Concludes That Piracy Is A Function Of Price And Ease Of Access - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190226/10050641678/nz-study-yet-again-concludes-that-piracy-is-function-price-ease-access.shtml again

smears? hardly. this is what US-government records show, amongst other “dirty meat” horrors: “Meat destined for the human food chain found riddled with faecal matter and abscesses filled with pus” - https://www.theguardian.com/animals-farmed/2018/feb/21/dirty-meat-shocking-hygiene-failings-discovered-in-us-pig-and-chicken-plants #brexitchaos

Barley hat kein Herz für Whistleblower: Justizministerium blockiert EU-Gesetz - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/barley-hat-kein-herz-fuer-whistleblower-justizministerium-blockiert-eu-gesetz/ eine #Schande - does she have something to hide, perchance?

German Data Privacy Commissioner Sounds Alarm Over ‘Upload Filter Oligopoly’ - https://torrentfreak.com/german-data-privacy-commissioner-sounds-alarm-over-upload-filter-oligopoly-190301/ moreover, these are likely to be US companies that are filtering and censoring EU material… #article13 #privacy

US ambassador to UK under fire over defence of chlorinated chicken - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/02/us-ambassador-to-uk-woody-johnson-under-fire-over-defence-of-chlorinated-chicken-post-brexit-jay-rayner quite right: chlorinated chicken is dunking meat in a soup of chlorine and chicken faeces to compensate for unhygienic conditions of US farms #animalabuse

Ocasio-Cortez outrages Republicans by refusing to respect their ignorance - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-republicans-ignorance

Europapolitiker von E-Mail-Flut überrascht - http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/artikel-13-und-uploadfilter-eu-abgeordnete-bekommen-tausende-e-mails-a-1255754.html great - so let’s send lots more, and amaze them even more #artikel13

5000 Menschen demonstrieren in Berlin gegen Uploadfilter und rufen: „Wir sind keine Bots“! - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/5000-menschen-demonstrieren-in-berlin-gegen-uploadfilter-und-rufen-wir-sind-keine-bots/ well done #artikel13

Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/02/facebook-global-lobbying-campaign-against-data-privacy-laws-investment #facebook is evil, it’s that’s simple. shut it down.

Study that claimed majority of Copyright Directive opposition came from the US assumed all English-language tweets came from Washington, DC - https://boingboing.net/2019/03/02/julia-reda-washington-dc.html #article13

After the quantified self, the quantified employee; but what about #privacy? - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/03/after-the-quantified-self-the-quantified-employee-but-what-about-privacy/ deeply troubling development #surveillance

#Google, siding with #SaudiArabia, refuses to remove widely-criticized government app which lets men track women and control their travel - https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-google-refuses-to-remove-saudi-govt-app-that-tracks-women-2019-3?international=true&r=US&IR=T google really going for the evil these days…