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China Briefly an Internet Island (Updated)

As Iran (possibly) moves forward with plans to cut itself off from the global Internet, and Beijing rails against online rumours, a mysterious hour-long disruption of web traffic in and out of China set off flurries of nervous speculation on Thursday. From The Guardian’s Tania Branigan:Xu Chuanchao, an executive at Sohu, one of the country’s biggest internet portals, wrote on his micr