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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/04/190402.html’s tweets as a single page

FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190331/09472141912/familytreedna-deputizes-itself-starts-pitching-dna-matching-services-to-law-enforcement.shtml another reason not to use these services

EU Commissioner Gunther Oettinger Admits: Sites Need Filters To Comply With #Article13 - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190329/15501341902/eu-commissioner-gunther-oettinger-admits-sites-need-filters-to-comply-with-article-13.shtml strange how their story has changed now it’s passed…it’s almost as if they were lying before

The Hate Industrial Complex - https://eand.co/the-hate-industrial-complex-8e7a35b61a7a “How YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are the New Fox News (But Worse)” good analysis (v @jjn1)

Jeremy Corbyn under pressure to back public vote on Brexit deal - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/03/jeremy-corbyn-under-pressure-to-back-public-vote-on-brexit-deal damn right

WhatsApp adds a new #privacy setting for groups in another effort to clamp down on fake news - https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/03/whatsapp-adds-a-new-privacy-setting-for-groups-in-another-effort-to-clamp-down-on-fake-news/ long overdue

After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn’t require filters, top EU Commissioner says “Article 13 requires filters” - https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/i-hate-being-right.html

Facebook Brexit ads secretly run by staff of Lynton Crosby firm - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/03/grassroots-facebook-brexit-ads-secretly-run-by-staff-of-lynton-crosby-firm this is dark money, not democracy; time we knew who exactly paid for these, and which country they came from (US? Russia? Elsewhere?)

Former Mozilla CTO was detained at US border and told he had no right to a lawyer - https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/former-mozilla-cto-was-detaine.html #murica

After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn’t block open source implementations, Google says it won’t support open source implementations - https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/i-hate-being-right-2.html repeat after me: #google is evil (and we told you so about DRM in HTML)

The march to mandatory, nationwide #DNA databases picks up pace around the world - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/04/the-relentless-march-to-mandatory-nationwide-dna-databases-picks-up-pace-around-the-world/ it’s coming