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http://mashable.com/2012/03/01/republican-cybersecurity/

Republican Senators: Keep Government Out of Companies' Cybersecurity

Should the U.S. government tell private companies how to defend themselves from cyberattacks?
integrity

http://mashable.com/2012/02/16/typosquatting-sites-shutdown/

Typosquatting Sites ‘Wikapedia’ and ‘Twtter’ Have Been Shut Down [VIDEO]

Two fake websites posing as Wikipedia and Twitter have been kicked off the Internet and fined £100,000 ($156,000) each.
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ACTA

China already has almost twice the number of Internet users as in the United States, and Dr. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/china-scrambles-for-high-tech-dominance.html?pagewanted=all

Power in Numbers - China Aims for High-Tech Primacy

China, unlike America, is moving toward Internet Protocol v. 6 (we're on 4). by pattychanman Jan 22

Which Politicians Are Getting the Tech Industry's Money?

http://mashable.com/2012/01/23/politicans-technology/ Thanks to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), lots of tech junkies have become politics junkies, too.
SOPA

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/01/here-we-go-again-congress-considers-blocking-governments-open-access-policy.ars The federal government, and thus US taxpayers, provide more money for scientific research than any other single entity.

Here we go again: Congress considers blocking government's open access policy