Morning must-reads

• Politico reported on Republican conversations about how to improve online, including the results of a Dec. 6 conclave hosted by the Republican National Committee and including Mitt Romney's digital director, Zac Moffatt.

• In an op-ed, Susan Crawford writes that the Internet be protected from public and private interference. wcit-proposals.info/ is working on presenting submitted proposals and their impact on global telecommunications regulation in an accessible format. The first resolution passed by the WCIT is aimed at fast-tracking connectivity for landlocked developing countries and small island developing countries.

Around the web

• In New York, the Bloomberg administration is calling on the public to help design the payphone of the future.
  

• The White House has officially joined Pinterest.

• Ad Age examined the close relationship between technology companies and the campaigns during the election cycle.

• GigaOm spoke with Obama for America's Chief Data Scientist Rayid Ghani about how the campaign reached out to voters using social media.

• Buzzfeed highlights "23 People Who Will Be Running Washington Next Year," placing an emphasis on "young, tech savvy operatives."

• Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist has joined the Democratic Party, he announced on Twitter.

• A We the People petition against having Gangnam-style rapper Psy perform at the White House Christmas party, citing anti-American songs he performed several years ago, was removed from the site and the performance went forward. Psy also issued an apology.

• A New Orleans prosecutor resigned after revelations that his staff had been posting inappropriate comments about ongoing cases on online newspaper articles.

• The FCC and mobile carriers have agreed to implement a text-to-911 service by May 2014.

• An Economist piece suggests that "the value of offensive capabilities" in cyber-warfare is overrated. A Foreign Affairs piece also examines the "hype" around cyberwarfare.

• The State Department is conducting an online vote on the new name for its blog.

• Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) is calling for a ban on 3D-printed guns.

• The Wall Street Journal examined the degree to which websites are collecting personal data through direct testing and experimentation.

• The city of Seattle live-blogged the first day of gay marriage in Washington state.

• New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan had some additional thoughts on the social media "supervision" of New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Jodi Rudoren. Rudoren is required to work with an editor on her social media posts.

• Slow Internet restoration is hampering post-Sandy recovery in Lower Manhattan.

• New York City created a GIF to illustrate the contrast between FEMA's flood zones and the actual Sandy flooding area.

• An Occupy protester whose Twitter data ended up being the subject of a subpoena will face trial.

• A Texas man with links to Anonymous is facing new charges in connection with the breach of Stratfor.

• The L.A. Times reported on Internet security start-up Crowdstrikers , now headed by the former head of the FBI's cybercrime division, Shawn Henry.

• Kashmir Hill outlined how journalists can avoid giving away sources through geographic photo metadata, as may have happened in the case of John McAfee and Vice Magazine.

• The Huffington Post reported on Christian technology entrepreneurs.

• The NRA is pushing for the elimination of a gun registry in Michigan.

International

• Google released new imagery of buildings affected by the 2011 Japan tsunami.

• Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi announced early Monday morning on his Facebook page that he was suspending a rise in sales taxes that he had made public Sunday afternoon.

• A U.N. Twitter chat discussed "ending violence against women and girls."

• A woman in Britain was jailed for a year after Al-Quaida terrorist material was found in her mobile phone.

• A British man associated with Anonymous was convicted of attacks against against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and others.

• The BBC explores Internet usage in North Korea.

• Chinese dissidents are worrying that security services are monitoring messaging app WeChat.

• Chinese officials arrested a journalist who had posted news online about five boys who died in a trash bin as they tried to take shelter from the cold.

• An online campaign called Savita's Laws aims to raise awareness and advocate for legal changes in the wake of the death of a woman in Ireland after she was denied an abortion.

• German consumer organizations are suing Facebook over how the social network shares personal data with third-party apps.

• A British online lender apologized for tweets an employee had sent attacking an MP's anti-lender positions.