China: Adorable Leftist Comedians from Jersey Need Not Apply
Philipp Lenssen uploads the dictionary to find out which words return censored results from Google China. Here are the results, and here's a sample rising out of the mists of corpo-governmental pettifoggery:
Note: This doesn't mean that all these words are censored in China. But as always with censorship, the actual results are so weird and sad that things would probably be simpler if they were.
Declassified by John Battelle.
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Bad luck, Janeane Garofalo!
The save-the-children Internet filter at the school where I taught didn't specifically filter out anything in Latin, but all the same you couldn't reach any website that happened to have Latin quotations on it because of the dreaded word "cum."
Jersey McJones banned in Beijing!
Dit tr?s bien