Wendy Leutert is a visiting researcher at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center and a PhD candidate in government at Cornell University. She worked for International Crisis Group …

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This week: encrypted messenger problems in the Middle East, domain name seizures, and a subversive cartoon pig gets banned from the Chinese internet. 

This article was originally published here on ForeignPolicy.com on Monday, January 5, 2015. Almost as soon as the nasheed, a religious chant, begins, an improvised explosive device destroys a milita…