Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like…
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Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back. by (Electronic Frontier Foundation) -
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Taking back control of my digital life – Timo Zimmermann by (screamingatmyscreen.com) -
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Google Is Handing the Future of the Internet to China by (Foreign Policy) The company has been quietly collaborating with the Chinese government on a new, censored search engine—and abandoning its own ideals in the process.
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EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ by (The Verge) Those in favor say they’re fighting for content creators, but critics say the new laws will be ‘catastrophic’
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Why we’re building a social network supported by people, not advertisers by (Fast Company) The designers behind Are.na explain the thinking that led to their nascent social platform, winner of the 2018 Innovation By Design General Excellence award.
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The top four web performance challenges | Clearleft by (Clearleft) Counting down the charts—what will be in the number one spot?
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The future of the Home of the Future by (The Verge) We join Grant Imahara in examining where the Home of the Future goes next.
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Robustness and least power | Clearleft by (Clearleft) A tale of two principles.
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To prevent overfishing and to improve the quality of the environment, fishing is banned on Lake Tai for 6 months of the year. On 1 September, the first day of the finishing season, I was invited out on one of the boats.
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http://scottmallinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/40381048_621053524959352_3642464660146896654_n-1.jpg 
Had fun exploring the less visited, more wild parts of Hangzhou with @lands_remote this weekend.
