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...world's funniest joke. "It was," Wiseman confesses, only "the world's funniest clean joke." More than 10,000 of the gags submitted by respondents around the world were too smutty for the censors. "I usually wouldn't give a monkey's [about vulgarity]," Wiseman says, acknowledging that censorship may have compromised his science. "But this was going on the university's website, so I had to." Learning all of this has made me feel better. So has hearing the most popular joke among the French - one that did make me laugh: An Alsatian went to a telegram office, took...
Although rumors of censorship have abounded for years, the announcement by HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain and first-year HLS student Benjamin G. Edelman ’02 shows the censorship is more advanced and widespread than earlier believed...
Through such methods, the two confirmed that Google, which had been blocked by the government earlier this September, was now accessible in China but subject to censorship of certain controversial material...
Edelman, who began his research on censorship in 2000 when the ACLU asked him to help them challenge federal mandates for filtering software in libraries and public schools, considers censorship in China an international concern...
...Filtering is seemingly inconsistent with the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” he said. “It also [indicates] that the Internet may be an instrument of censorship, political restrictions, discipline or other state control. In this context, carefully documenting the specific details of the changes is arguably helpful to those who seek to study, analyze, and debate such policies...