Das ist so schön absurd, dass ich es einfach verlinken muss: Die British Library hat den Zugriff auf Shakespeares Hamlet in ihrem WiFi-Netz verboten, weil es sich um „violent content“ handelt. Jeder Kommentar erübrigt sich.
On Monday, 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“.
