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Translation: Online Group Rules No Joking Matter

CDT has long celebrated irreverent online humor in China, commissioning and publishing cartoons, translating thousands of comments, and compiling the Grass Mud Horse Lexicon as a reference guide to political online slang. The Lexicon’s often darkly humorous wordplay can help evade censorship, and give vivid expression to politically "unharmonious" views. On the other hand, as Citizen Lab’s Jason Q. Ng has warned, it may divide and isolate resistance