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we need a #newdealfornature, to set the planet on a path to recovery by 2030. if we don’t, we will be in even more trouble than we are now… https://www.ourplanet.com/en/voice/globe/ #naturematters #ourplanet

The BLM’s Burning Man environmental impact statement is terrible, calls for drug searches, dumpsters, and a 19,000,000lb concrete wall - https://boingboing.net/2019/04/07/jersey-barriers-r-us.html

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/04/190405.html’s tweets as a single page

‘Our mantra is chaos’: Republican researchers target 2020 Democrats - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/05/election-2020-america-rising-republican-opposition-research meanwhile, trump still refuses to release his tax records…something to hide, perchance?

German Government’s Bullying Of FOI Group Provides A Warning Of How EU’s New #UploadFilters Will Be Used For Censorship - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190402/09114041924/german-governments-bullying-foi-group-provides-warning-how-eus-new-upload-filters-will-be-used-censorship.shtml it’s going to get much worse… #article13

Anti-Piracy Outfit MUSO Comes Out Against The Use Of #DRM - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190403/09174041930/anti-piracy-outfit-muso-comes-out-against-use-drm.shtml

Tory MP says joining in EU elections would be ‘existential threat’ to party - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/06/tory-mp-nadhim-zahawi-says-joining-in-eu-elections-would-be-conservative-party-suicide-note amazing how terrified #brexiters are of democracy…

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/04/190404.html’s tweets as a single page

German Government’s Bullying Of FOI Group Provides A Warning Of How EU’s New #UploadFilters Will Be Used For Censorship - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190402/09114041924/german-governments-bullying-foi-group-provides-warning-how-eus-new-upload-filters-will-be-used-censorship.shtml it’s going to get much worse… #article13

House Democrats formally demand Trump’s tax returns from IRS - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/03/trump-tax-returns-house-democrats-irs this could get interesting…

I see age verification companies that will create the biggest database of people’s porn preferences - perfect for blackmail - are now trying to smear people pointing out this is a stupid idea as “deliberately creating a climate of fear and confusion about the technologies” nope

Google Pay tells Euro users it has ditched UK for Ireland ahead of Brexit - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/05/google_pay_tells_euro_users_its_ditched_uk_for_ireland_ahead_of_brexit/ UK’s self-imposed journey into global irrelevance continues…

Weitere Proteste gegen Urheberrechtsreform angekündigt - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/weitere-proteste-gegen-urheberrechtsreform-angekuendigt/ #uploadfilter

FWIW I now have an account on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody it won't be as active as this one here, which may be a feature rather than a bug, but will have my main posts…

The New York Times’s chilling multimedia package on #China's use of “smart city” tech to create an open-air prison - https://boingboing.net/2019/04/05/belt-nroad-betatest.html great use of Web tech to report on appalling situation… #uyghurs #xinjiang

Copyright Enforcement Service Claims $600 Billion-Worth Of Images Are ‘Stolen’ Every Day - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190403/16130141934/copyright-enforcement-service-claims-600-billion-worth-images-are-stolen-every-day.shtml good job #copyright maximalists never exaggerate losses…

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/04/190403.html’s tweets as a single page

Ministers warned over planes and troops in no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/04/ministers-warned-over-planes-and-troops-in-no-deal-brexit “publish his 14-page document setting out the catastrophic consequences of a no-deal Brexit.” nothing to hide, nothing to fear, right?

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, and few seem to care…

Russia Expands Site Blocking To #VPNs - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190329/15064741900/russia-expands-site-blocking-to-vpns.shtml this was predictable, but bad news in any case; others will doubtless follow suit

“10,000 officers trained in quelling disorder were ready for deployment across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and trained in tactics to tackle looting” - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/04/police-amass-10000-officers-in-preparation-for-no-deal-unrest perfectly normal… #brexitchaos

Saudi Arabia’s first nuclear reactor nearly finished, sparking fears over safeguards - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/04/saudi-arabias-first-nuclear-reactor-nearly-finished-sparking-fears-over-safeguards so what happens to that nuclear material when #saudiarabia collapses, and is taken over by extreme islamists…?

“We once took not just pride, but also security, from the sense of Britons as moderate, stoical, polite, tolerant people, protected from extremes by pragmatism and humour. That idea has been completely torpedoed.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/04/anger-and-frustration-how-brexit-is-affecting-our-mental-health I agree #brexitchaos

How US went from telecoms leader to #5G also-ran without challenger to China’s Huawei - https://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/3004325/how-us-went-telecoms-leader-5g-also-ran-without-challenger-chinas good analysis of the benefits of standardisation

DOJ Warns Academy That Being An Anti-Streaming Luddite Could Violate Antitrust - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190402/11534941926/doj-warns-academy-that-being-anti-streaming-luddite-could-violate-antitrust.shtml interesting…

Campaign to save oceans maps out global network of sanctuaries - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/04/campaign-to-save-oceans-maps-out-global-network-of-sanctuaries must be a priority

Leaked emails show infiltration fears before attempt to oust Grieve - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/04/leaked-emails-show-infiltration-fears-before-dominic-grieve-tory-confidence-vote “Grieve was one of several Tory MPs targeted for deselection by Leave.EU”

Leaked file shows stark contrasts for Britons in EU after no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/04/leaked-file-shows-stark-contrasts-for-britons-in-eu-after-no-deal-brexit #brexit: taking away rights from Brits abroad, making everyone’s life more miserable…

Bavarian ‘save the bees’ success raises green hopes in Germany - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/04/bavarian-save-the-bees-success-raises-green-hopes-in-germany “Other German states are now planning to hold their own public votes”

Northern Ireland faces prospect of no-deal #Brexit ‘milk lake’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/04/northern-ireland-faces-prospect-of-no-deal-brexit-milk-lake “UK would be subjected to a de facto ban on exports of animals, meat and food products”

Justizministerin Barley will Urheberrechtsreform zustimmen - http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/uploadfilter-katarina-barley-will-eu-urheberrechtsreform-zustimmen-a-1261361.html “hat sich für eine deutsche Unterstützung des umstrittenen Gesetzes ausgesprochen - mit Einschränkungen.” feeble #uploadfilters

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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

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/04/190401.html’s tweets as a single page

The EU’s Catastrophic Copyright Directive Can Still Be Stopped, If Governments Of Sweden And Germany Do The Right Thing - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190401/02091241917/eus-catastrophic-copyright-directive-can-still-be-stopped-if-governments-sweden-germany-do-right-thing.shtml this is our last chance, let’s hope #se and #de seize it… #article13 #article11

Vendors protest eviction from #Shenzhen’s historic Huaqiangbei electronics market - https://technode.com/2019/04/02/vendors-shenzhen-huaqiangbei-protest/ that’s a pity

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/03/190331.html’s tweets as a single page

Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’ - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/technology/burger-king-impossible-whopper.html starting to catch on…

Former Pirate Party Leader Asks to Be Sued Over EBook Site, Has Wish Granted - https://torrentfreak.com/former-pirate-party-leader-asks-to-be-sued-over-ebook-site-has-wish-granted-190401/