Glyn Moody
@glynmoody.bsky.social
writer (Rebel Code, Digital Code of Life, Walled Culture - free ebook download - https://walledculture.org/the-book/), journalist, blogger. On #DigitalRights, #privacy, #surveillance, #openness, #copyright, and #patents. email: [email protected]
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With SCREEN Act and KOSA on the legislative block this week, there couldn't be a better time for Fight's "Stop Online ID Checks" Week of Action.
Today's action: Share and sign the petition.
Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org
Today's action: Share and sign the petition.
Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
With SCREEN Act and KOSA on the legislative block this week, there couldn't be a better time for Fight's "Stop Online ID Checks" Week of Action.
Today's action: Share and sign the petition.
Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org
Today's action: Share and sign the petition.
Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org
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Some reflections on the Sony v. Cox oral arguments (but read @mrose.ink's live posts for more detail)!
The facts for Cox looked bad. Clement, for Sony, made reference three times to what he called the "F the DMCA" email sent by one employee (which did not, in fact, say "F"). 1/
The facts for Cox looked bad. Clement, for Sony, made reference three times to what he called the "F the DMCA" email sent by one employee (which did not, in fact, say "F"). 1/
And we're off with SCOTUS arguments in Sony v Cox. The question at issue: whether ISPs can be liable for the copyright infringement committed by their users.
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Some reflections on the Sony v. Cox oral arguments (but read @mrose.ink's live posts for more detail)!
The facts for Cox looked bad. Clement, for Sony, made reference three times to what he called the "F the DMCA" email sent by one employee (which did not, in fact, say "F"). 1/
The facts for Cox looked bad. Clement, for Sony, made reference three times to what he called the "F the DMCA" email sent by one employee (which did not, in fact, say "F"). 1/
Wikimedia Foundation secures crucial legal win in France - diff.wikimedia.org/2025/12/01/w... "marking a victory for freedom of expression and for everyone who contributes to Wikimedia projects" #wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation secures crucial legal win in France
On 19 September 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation won an important case at the Paris Civil Court, marking a victory for freedom of expression and for everyone who contributes to Wikimedia projects. Th…
diff.wikimedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Wikimedia Foundation secures crucial legal win in France - diff.wikimedia.org/2025/12/01/w... "marking a victory for freedom of expression and for everyone who contributes to Wikimedia projects" #wikipedia
Georgian government vows to take legal action against BBC - jam-news.net/georgian-gov... "According to the party, the BBC “baselessly claims” in its article that Georgian police used First World War–era chemical agents to disperse protests in 2024." yeah, good luck with that #georgia
Georgian government vowes to take legal action against BBC
Ruling party accuses BBC of spreading “dirty, false allegations”
jam-news.net
December 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Georgian government vows to take legal action against BBC - jam-news.net/georgian-gov... "According to the party, the BBC “baselessly claims” in its article that Georgian police used First World War–era chemical agents to disperse protests in 2024." yeah, good luck with that #georgia
Scarlett Johansson says she was pressed to remove Holocaust narrative from directing debut - www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de... "A backer of Eleanor the Great, about a woman who pretends to be a Holocaust survivor, dropped out after Johansson refused to make changes" #brava #kudos
Scarlett Johansson says she was pressed to remove Holocaust narrative from directing debut
A backer of Eleanor the Great, about a woman who pretends to be a Holocaust survivor, dropped out after Johansson refused to make changes
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Scarlett Johansson says she was pressed to remove Holocaust narrative from directing debut - www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de... "A backer of Eleanor the Great, about a woman who pretends to be a Holocaust survivor, dropped out after Johansson refused to make changes" #brava #kudos
Israeli settlers attack and rob Italian and Canadian volunteers in West Bank - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... "Group beaten in early hours of morning in village where they volunteered to help protect Palestinians from settler violence" #israel #canada #italy #palestine
Israeli settlers attack and rob Italian and Canadian volunteers in West Bank
Group beaten in early hours of morning in village where they volunteered to help protect Palestinians from settler violence
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Israeli settlers attack and rob Italian and Canadian volunteers in West Bank - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... "Group beaten in early hours of morning in village where they volunteered to help protect Palestinians from settler violence" #israel #canada #italy #palestine
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Important piece by my @justsecurity.org colleague and former Navy JAG @marknevitt.bsky.social.
www.justsecurity.org/125998/boat-...
www.justsecurity.org/125998/boat-...
Killing Shipwrecked Survivors is Not Just Illegal—It Endangers U.S. Servicemembers
If the United States chooses a path where killing defenseless survivors becomes acceptable, American servicemembers will pay the price for that choice.
www.justsecurity.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Important piece by my @justsecurity.org colleague and former Navy JAG @marknevitt.bsky.social.
www.justsecurity.org/125998/boat-...
www.justsecurity.org/125998/boat-...
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BREAKING: @OpenAI.com & @Microsoft.com have been sued for $10 Billion+ by 9 newspaper groups, including the @LATimes.com, who claim direct and secondary © infringement + violation of the DMCA by removing © management info. Plaintiffs allege their works were "copied" and "memorized":🧵👀
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
BREAKING: @OpenAI.com & @Microsoft.com have been sued for $10 Billion+ by 9 newspaper groups, including the @LATimes.com, who claim direct and secondary © infringement + violation of the DMCA by removing © management info. Plaintiffs allege their works were "copied" and "memorized":🧵👀
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I think that must have been in one of the Gnostic Gospels.
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I think that must have been in one of the Gnostic Gospels.
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Attorney general urges Nigel Farage to apologise to classmates over alleged racism and antisemitism
Attorney general urges Nigel Farage to apologise to classmates over alleged racism and antisemitism
Exclusive: Richard Hermer, a senior Jewish minister, says Reform leader ‘clearly deeply hurt’ many people with his alleged behaviour
The UK’s top law officer, one of the most senior Jewish government ministers, has urged Nigel Farage to apologise to school contemporaries who claim the Reform UK leader racially abused them while at school.
The attorney general Richard Hermer said that Farage had “clearly deeply hurt” many people with their descriptions of his behaviour, and that his “constantly changing” denials had been unconvincing. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Attorney general urges Nigel Farage to apologise to classmates over alleged racism and antisemitism
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It has now been a year since I stopped posting on X. For @spitfirenews.com, I wrote about watching the platform I loved become a conduit for the worst extremism I've ever witnessed. I don't regret leaving. In fact, I wish I'd left even earlier.
spitfirenews.com/p/x-bluesky-...
spitfirenews.com/p/x-bluesky-...
I'm glad I stopped posting on X
A year ago, I abandoned my account. It was the right thing to do.
spitfirenews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It has now been a year since I stopped posting on X. For @spitfirenews.com, I wrote about watching the platform I loved become a conduit for the worst extremism I've ever witnessed. I don't regret leaving. In fact, I wish I'd left even earlier.
spitfirenews.com/p/x-bluesky-...
spitfirenews.com/p/x-bluesky-...
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Very well-deserved shout-out to Kristin Henry of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal program, whose superpower is "getting utility executives to admit under oath that coal was gouging their ratepayers."
In 2015, I wrote the first big article inside the war on coal for
@politico.com. Ten years later, I wrote about how the war is going for @canarymedia.com. The @sierraclub.org is still winning the war, but Trump and AI are complicating the endgame.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
@politico.com. Ten years later, I wrote about how the war is going for @canarymedia.com. The @sierraclub.org is still winning the war, but Trump and AI are complicating the endgame.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Can the war on coal still be won?
Ten years ago, the U.S. was on track to phase out coal by 2030, thanks to the Sierra Club. Now Trump and AI are delaying the fuel’s decline.
www.canarymedia.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Very well-deserved shout-out to Kristin Henry of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal program, whose superpower is "getting utility executives to admit under oath that coal was gouging their ratepayers."
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 5: VAERS and a useful idiot at the FDA sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org.web.brid.gy @gorskon.bsky.social
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 5: VAERS and a useful idiot at the FDA
In the sadly continuing story of how Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. is working to eliminate vaccines, we look at a useful idiot, Dr. Vinay Prasad, and how he is weaponizing dead children
sciencebasedmedicine.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 5: VAERS and a useful idiot at the FDA sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org.web.brid.gy @gorskon.bsky.social
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*long sigh in history of the DMCA*
Justice Sotomayor has the DMCA very, very wrong. She reads it as a statute designed to preserve liability for platforms, not as one designed to shield them from it so that they can exist to facilitate user expression.
AND she and Jackson impose extremely modern (c) law on its statutory origins.
AND she and Jackson impose extremely modern (c) law on its statutory origins.
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
*long sigh in history of the DMCA*
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You can imagine ICC lawyers playing these clips at The Hague...
FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
You can imagine ICC lawyers playing these clips at The Hague...
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"The committee is in communication with Frank 'Mitch' Bradley, the commander who oversaw the bombing, about getting a possible classified briefing. He appears to have been instrumental."
#Hagueseth
#Hagueseth
News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"The committee is in communication with Frank 'Mitch' Bradley, the commander who oversaw the bombing, about getting a possible classified briefing. He appears to have been instrumental."
#Hagueseth
#Hagueseth
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This is really quite wild. Somebody altered ISW’s map of the Ukraine conflict to make a buck on Polymarket.
December 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is really quite wild. Somebody altered ISW’s map of the Ukraine conflict to make a buck on Polymarket.
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No mention of fossil fuels in the Cop30 deal... a week later and more than 1100 people dead across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia after torrential rain and catastrophic floods. We are not all in this together #climateinjustice
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy militaries as Asia floods death toll passes 1,100
Millions of people affected by torrential rainfall in Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
No mention of fossil fuels in the Cop30 deal... a week later and more than 1100 people dead across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia after torrential rain and catastrophic floods. We are not all in this together #climateinjustice
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Alito: You think universities should be restricting their students with what they could do?
Sony: It would be fine if universities provided students Internet services too slow to download files. "I could live in that world."
WTF! STUDENTS DOWNLOAD LAWFUL EXPRESSION TOO!!!
Sony: It would be fine if universities provided students Internet services too slow to download files. "I could live in that world."
WTF! STUDENTS DOWNLOAD LAWFUL EXPRESSION TOO!!!
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Alito: You think universities should be restricting their students with what they could do?
Sony: It would be fine if universities provided students Internet services too slow to download files. "I could live in that world."
WTF! STUDENTS DOWNLOAD LAWFUL EXPRESSION TOO!!!
Sony: It would be fine if universities provided students Internet services too slow to download files. "I could live in that world."
WTF! STUDENTS DOWNLOAD LAWFUL EXPRESSION TOO!!!
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The best way to understand the current regime is that we're effectively being governed by an unofficial, extra-constitutional junta mostly dominated by Miller, in which Trump himself is a marginal and disengaged figurehead making few if any substantive decisions.
it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The best way to understand the current regime is that we're effectively being governed by an unofficial, extra-constitutional junta mostly dominated by Miller, in which Trump himself is a marginal and disengaged figurehead making few if any substantive decisions.
and even if they are, the copyright industry will want more and more and more
It’s the year 2000. A court is considering whether ISPs can be liable for copyright infringement committed by their users.
It’s 2005. A court is considering whether ISPs can be liable for copyright infringement committed by their users.
It’s 2010. It’s 2013. It’s 2025.
It’s 2005. A court is considering whether ISPs can be liable for copyright infringement committed by their users.
It’s 2010. It’s 2013. It’s 2025.
And we're off with SCOTUS arguments in Sony v Cox. The question at issue: whether ISPs can be liable for the copyright infringement committed by their users.
December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
and even if they are, the copyright industry will want more and more and more
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Zipcar, world’s biggest car-sharing company, to close UK operation
Zipcar, world’s biggest car-sharing company, to close UK operation
Move by firm, owned by US group Avis Budget, will remove access to shared fleet across London at end of year
The world’s biggest car-sharing company, Zipcar, has said it will close its UK operation, removing access to its shared fleet across London at the end of this year.
The company, owned by the US car rental group Avis Budget, said it will suspend new bookings after 31 December, pending the outcome of a consultation on possible redundancies. The UK operating company had 71 staff last year, according to its latest accounts. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Zipcar, world’s biggest car-sharing company, to close UK operation
good to see some people still have a sense of duty...
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
good to see some people still have a sense of duty...
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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Yeah, the entire Internet at the moment
You know that feeling when you read something online and it seems deliberately provocative, almost manufactured to create outrage?
Oxford’s Word of the Year 2025 is utterly infuriating | CNN
You know that feeling when you read something online and it seems deliberately provocative, almost manufactured to create outrage? You may have just encountered “rage bait” – content deliberately desi...
www.cnn.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Yeah, the entire Internet at the moment