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1. We've got some contrarian voices on the role of Twitter in Moldova: read "The Myth of the Twitter Revolution" in Moldova over at the Frontline Club's blog.

2.  A good rundown of China's cyberspying methods in Tibet from the Asia Times

3.  Another entry in the cyberspying department: Electricity Grid in U.S. penetrated by spies

4.  Do we really need fancy Web innovation in human rights-related projects?

5. Russia is no enemy of the Internet, says an op-ed in the Moscow Times (they'll DDOS you if you don't believe it). 

6. From the "Conficker fears" department: Conficker fears spread fake anti-virus products+ new Conficker copycat spreads via instant messaging

7. UPDATED: Here is also some dark Twitter humor: "Protests in Moldova "explode, thanks to Twitter". To say thanks, authorites will only imprison 140 characters at a time".

 
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Evgeny Morozov, originally from Belarus, is a visiting scholar at Stanford and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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