Dangers of electronic communication
Thursday, October 19th, 2006While working through my RSS feeds this morning I read a sad tale at Danwei about a satirical poem that was sent to a few friends which resulted in the author being arrested for libel. It appears the local Chinese government took exception. Satire and sarcasm have long been used to make comments on politics, [...]
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