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China to expand registration rules for microblog users (Reuters)

Reuters – China will expand real-name registration for microblog users, the government’s propaganda and information arm said on Wednesday, in its latest step to better control China’s wildly popular Twitter-like websites.

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Internet blackout against U.S. law fails to enlist big sites (Reuters)

Reuters – A blackout scheduled for Wednesday to protest against proposed legislation on online piracy has failed to get the support of the biggest Internet players.

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India wants websites to screen derogatory content (AP)

AP – India’s top telecommunications official said Tuesday that Internet giants such as Facebook and Google have ignored his demands to screen derogatory material from their sites, so the government would have to act on its own.

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Experts suspect Iran involvement in Dutch hacking (AP)

AP – Hackers who broke into a Dutch web security firm have issued hundreds of bogus security certificates for spy agency websites including the CIA as well as for Internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Twitter, the government said Monday.

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China state paper urges Internet rethink to gag foes (Reuters)

Reuters – China’s Communist Party control is at risk unless the government takes firmer steps to stop Internet opinion being shaped by increasingly organized political foes, a team of party writers warned in a commentary published on Friday.

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Telecom gets nod for New Zealand broadband (AFP)

AFP – New Zealand’s largest telecoms company Telecom Corp. won a contract Tuesday to build most of the government’s NZ$3.0 billion ($2.4 billion) ultra-fast broadband network, officials said.

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Ex-IMF chief’s wife ‘touched’ by blog messages (AFP)

AFP – Anne Sinclair, the wife of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said Monday she was “touched” by many messages of support, but was closing down her blog for the time being.

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