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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 161128 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2016/11/161128.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Digital Economy Bill passed by MPs, ISP porn blocking plan waved through - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/11/digital-economy-bill-politicos-to-greenlight-isp-porn-blocking-plan/ welcome to the prudish police state UK

Theresa May signs up to unitary patent, accepts supremacy of top EU court - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/11/uk-ratify-unitary-patent-accepts-supremacy-of-top-eu-court/ well, that's awkward #brexit #UPC

Senior Brazilian Court Says 'Right To Be Forgotten' Cannot Be Imposed On Search Engines - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161123/09244936123/senior-brazilian-court-says-right-to-be-forgotten-cannot-be-imposed-search-engines.shtml #brazil

Taliban ​facing financial crisis as civilian deaths deter donors - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/afghan-taliban-facing-financial-crisis-as-civilian-deaths-deter-donors our heart bleeds...

Germans want Merkel to take tough line with UK over #Brexit, poll finds - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/29/germans-want-merkel-to-take-tough-line-with-uk-over-brexit-poll-finds so there's that...

Get ready for 24-30% reduction in cost of #windpower by 2030 - http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/11/get-ready-for-reduction-in-cost-of-wind-power-by-2030/ great news, but I expect we'll do even better

Time for Elsexit? - https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/time-for-elsexit/ important post about @jisc's pathetic negotiating skills, & what to do about it (v @yvonnenobis)

French nuclear power  'worst situation ever', says former EDF director - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/29/french-nuclear-power-worst-situation-ever-former-edf-director "renewable power will match Hinkley Point"

#Uber tells Europe’s top court that taxi app is a “digital economy” champ - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/11/uber-tells-europe-top-court-taxi-app-digital-economy-champ/ important case with big ramifications

AT&T Just Showed Us What The Death Of #NetNeutrality Is Going To Look Like - https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20161129/05065936147/att-just-showed-us-what-death-net-neutrality-is-going-to-look-like.shtml here it comes...

Cameroonian Government Calls Social Media A 'New Form Of Terrorism' - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161116/10174936059/cameroonian-government-calls-social-media-new-form-terrorism.shtml uh-huh

Trudeau cabinet approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 pipelines - http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/federal-cabinet-trudeau-pipeline-decisions-1.3872828 - "a million more barrels of oil a day" #tarsands #ca

#RCEP must not be another #TPP, say 316 regional civil society groups - http://www.bilaterals.org/?civil-society-open-letter-to #ISDS proposed too..

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 161127 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2016/11/161127.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Hard #Brexit would damage 'almost every sector' of UK economy - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/28/hard-brexit-would-damage-almost-every-sector-of-uk-economy "a cross-party study warns"

German interior ministry wants 2 diminish citizens’ data #privacy rights - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/11/germany-diminish-citizens-data-privacy-rights/ hey, was gibt's, Germany? #dataprotection

UK tech visa applications skyrocket after government slackens rules - http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/11/tech-visa-uk-applications-skyrocket/ damn immigrants, powering our tech industry...

Somehow Everyone Comes Out Looking Terrible In The Effort For Election Recounts - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161128/00444036141/somehow-everyone-comes-out-looking-terrible-effort-election-recounts.shtml what a mess #us

UK unlikely to stay in single market, Tory document suggests - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/28/uk-unlikely-to-stay-in-single-market-tory-document-suggests clueless idiots; a second referendum only way forward

"How could you betray me?" - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/28/conversation-father-trump-supporter "I don’t think women like you have anything to fear from Trump"; what an utter moron

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 161126 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2016/11/161126.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

‘A recipe for scandal’: Trump conflicts of interest point to constitutional crisis - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/27/donald-trump-conflicts-interest-constitutional-crisis interesting times

“#FOIA superhero” launches campaign to  make Trump’s admin transparent - http://www.salon.com/2016/11/27/foia-superhero-launches-campaign-to-make-donald-trumps-administration-transparent/ funding needed - https://www.gofundme.com/operation-45

talking of #FOI, Karl Auerbach pointed out to me that US Privacy Act of 1974 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974 is another useful option

#Chechnya picks leader's aide with an Apprentice-style reality show - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/25/chechnya-leader-apprentice-reality-show </insert reference to another country here>

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 161125 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2016/11/161125.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Send patients 2 private sector to avert winter crisis, hospitals told - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/26/send-patients-to-private-sector-to-avert-winter-crisis-hospitals-told clever: privatisation by stealth, adds costs

Donald Trump’s stock in Dakota Access oil pipeline company raises concern - http://www.salon.com/2016/11/25/trumps-stock-in-oil-pipeline-company-raises-concern/ as it should... #DAPL

Datenschützer Caspar warnt vor #Tisa-Abkommen - http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/tisa-verhandlungen-johannes-caspar-warnt-vor-aufweichung-von-eu-recht-a-1123074.html "einen Frontalangriff auf europäische Standards"

Thunderstorm asthma: 'an event equivalent to a terrorist attack' - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/27/thunderstorm-asthma-oure-talking-an-event-equivalent-to-a-terrorist-attack climate change far more serious than terrorism

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 161124 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2016/11/161124.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Arctic ice melt could trigger uncontrollable #climatechange at global level - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/25/arctic-ice-melt-trigger-uncontrollable-climate-change-global-level & US voted 4 the denialist trump

#Japan plans 130-petaflop #China-beating number-crunching supercomputer - http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/11/supercomputer-japan-130-petaflop-china-beating-number-cruncher/ almost certain to run #linux

'We are in shock': historic #Bolivia drought hammers homes and crops - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/nov/25/bolivia-drought-water-rationing-crops facts of #climatechange we'll see more often

.@BorisJohnson is a clown who has united the EU against Britain - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/25/boris-johnson-clown-eu-britain-foreign-secretary about the only thing he's ever achieved

Repeal the new Surveillance laws (Investigatory Powers Act) - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/173199 #epetition; probably hopeless, but we have to try...

#TiSA-Leaks: Fundamental rights overridden for free trade – also in the internet - https://netzpolitik.org//2016/tisa-leaks-fundamental-rights-shall-be-levered-out-for-free-trade-also-in-the-internet/ lots of bad stuff confirmed

Kazakh President Says 'No Need' To Rename Capital After Him - http://www.rferl.org/a/kazakhstan-nazarbaev-no-need-to-rename-astana-after-me/28139489.html bravo, this would be a huge mistake for #kazakhstan

Digital Economy Bill: About this data sharing plan… where are the safeguards? - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/11/digital-economy-bill-about-this-data-sharing-plan-op-ed/

Chechnya picks leader's aide with an Apprentice-style reality show - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/25/chechnya-leader-apprentice-reality-show border between reality & showbiz fades yet more

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 161123 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2016/11/161123.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

ISPs may be forced to block age-flouting porn sites, saucy sex acts face ban - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/11/isps-block-porn-sites-age-verification-digital-economy-bill-sex-acts-ban/ UK goes from bad to worse

.@Snowden can be invited to meatspace in German #NSA probe, court rules - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/11/snowden-can-be-invited-in-person-german-nsa-inquiry-court/ but would the US nab him if he went?

Kazakh politicians want to rename capital after president - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/24/kazakhstan-politicians-rename-capital-astana-after-president-nursultan-nazarbayev don't spoil all the progress you've made... #kazakhstan

World Leaders: Protect half our planet - https://secure.avaaz.org/en/protect_half_our_planet_loc_sus_d/ with trump about to wreck environment, we need this more than ever

Protected forests in Europe felled to meet EU renewable targets – report - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/24/protected-forests-in-europe-felled-to-meet-eu-renewable-targets-report EU #bioenergy policy a disaster - bin it

TiSA Ministerial Cancelled, Officials To Prepare for 2017 - http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges/news/tisa-ministerial-cancelled-officials-to-prepare-for-2017 after #TPP & #TTIP, now #TISA is in trouble...

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 161122 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2016/11/161122.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-earth-donald-trump-eliminate-climate-change-research dangerous fools on the loose

UK to censor online videos of 'non-conventional' sex acts - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/23/censor-non-conventional-sex-acts-online-internet-pornography "will take UK’s censorship regime back to pre-internet"

China Uses US Concern Over Fake News To Push For More Control Of The Internet - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161122/11501136116/china-uses-us-concern-over-fake-news-to-push-more-control-internet.shtml as was inevitable...

#brexit: Canadian finance minister says UK not top of trade priorities - http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2016/november/brexit-canadian-finance-minister-says-uk-not-top-of-trade-priorities/ well, that's #awkward

They blocked Netflix, but no one's in a rush to regulate insecure 'smart devices' - http://mashable.com/2016/11/23/australia-regulating-iot-devices-last-resort/ that's foolish #IoT

Nadella says next Microsoft phone will be the “ultimate mobile device” - http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/11/23/nadella-says-next-microsoft-phone-will-ultimate-mobile-device/ the last one, he means? that's a relief

#TPP Dead, #TTIP Dying, But The EU And #Canada Seem Determined To Ram Through #CETA Deal Without Proper Scrutiny - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161122/09574936110/tpp-dead-ttip-dying-eu-canada-seem-determined-to-ram-through-ceta-deal-without-proper-scrutiny.shtml

MEPs quash #CETA challenge but what about Wallonia? - http://www.euractiv.com/section/all/news/the-brief-meps-quash-ceta-challenge-but-what-about-wallonia/ will @PaulMagnette save EU democracy? #ISDS