Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke
The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy article looking at the role of humor and satire online in China:
No government in the world pours more resources into patrolling the Web than China’s, tracking down unwanted content and supposed miscreants among the online population of 500 million with an a ...
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[...] value, this humor shows where netizens are pushing against the boundaries of the state,” says Xiao Qiang, an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose Web site, China [...]