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Twitter A Haven Amid New Rules

Chinese netizens posted record-breaking numbers on microblogging site Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-equivalent, in the first minute of the Year of the Dragon. But with the Chinese government implementing new Internet regulations as part of a broader strategy of information control, The New York Times notes that some more tech-savvy dissidents have found a safe haven in Twitter itself: A number of