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Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Hamlet is Banned

"I was sitting in the British Library frantically trying to write my new book in a shturmovshchina. I had to quickly check a particular line in Hamlet, so I Googled Hamlet MIT, because the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has put the entire works of Shakespeare up on the Internet. (It takes 70 mins to order a physical book). I clicked on the link and...

A message came up from the British Library telling me that access to site was blocked due to "violent content"."

http://blog.inkyfool.com/2013/08/hamlet-is-banned.html

British Library's wi-fi service blocks 'violent' Hamlet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23680689