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Old 08-18-2013, 10:39 PM   #1
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British Library's wi-fi service blocks Hamlet
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A man using the British Library's wi-fi network was denied access to an online version of Shakespeare's Hamlet because the text contained "violent content".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23680689

I guess that they didn't want to be outdone by the various Mark Twain fusses in the US.
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