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blogs.wsj.com — Twitter sent its digital street cred tumbling on Thursday night when it announced that it would being selectively censoring content as a way to enter countries with “different ideas” about freedom of expression.

tealeafnation.com — Part I in a series. Details the key players on Weibo, China's Twitter, focusing first on writers & economists.

www.penn-olson.com — A largely unknown Chinese manufacturer has launched a the 'RedPad' Android tablet that’s aimed at, and highly customized for, China’s ruling cadres.

english.caixin.cn — Millions of Chinese in the last week have rushed to change their passwords and online account details, after a huge cache of personal data from China's most popular websites leaked onto the web last week.

www.penn-olson.com — There are a lot of nice things a foreign tourist could buy on a trip to mainland China - but an Android phone or tablet should be at the bottom of your list. Here's why...

www.nytimes.com — In an otherwise nondescript conference room, Wu Jianping stands before a giant wall of frosted glass. He toggles a switch and the glass becomes transparent, looking down on an imposing network operations center full of large computer displays. They show maps of China and the world, pinpointing China's IPv6 links, the next generation of the Internet.

www.penn-olson.com — Increasingly, Chinese manufacturers are breaking away from being OEMs and are also casting off the shoddy mantle of making shanzhai – fake, or low-rent – gadgets. That’s because the likes of OPPO, Tian Hua, ZTE, and many more, are aiming to make your next smartphone...

www.isidorsfugue.com — Two examples from Guangxi University in Nanning show how opportunistic and exploratory research in China can lead to better questions for guiding innovative design for technology.

www.techdirt.com — There are so many scary parts to SOPA, it's taking some time to pull out all the pieces. One of the scarier parts of SOPA that isn't found in PROTECT IP, is the addition of a form of an "anti-circumvention" rule, which makes it illegal to try to get around any blockade on the US government's blacklist.

blogs.wsj.com — China's top Internet watchdog has waded into the debate surrounding the country's increasingly influential Twitter-like microblogging sites, praising them as a platform for communication but calling for them to be more tightly regulated to ensure a "healthy" environment online.