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And It's Gone! After 3 Days, Beijing Bans Discussion Of Viral China Smog Documentary
Just 3 days after "Under The Dome" went massively viral (152 million views on China's Tencent alone), exposing the reality of China's disastrous pollution in an in-depth 104-minute documentary, The FT reports Chinese censors have moved to tamp down discussion domestically. We had previously noted with surprise just how 'big' the story had got without Beijing's intervention and now we see propaganda authorities directed news outlets on Monday not to publish stories about Under the Dome.
Of course, the documentary is still available (with English subtitles) on YouTube...
Chinese censors have moved to tamp down discussion of a hard-hitting documentary on air pollution that sent the country’s blogosphere into overdrive, highlighting political sensitivity about China’s smog problem.
Propaganda authorities directed news outlets on Monday not to publish stories about Under the Dome, the emotional first-person documentary by a former state television anchor, journalists from three news organisations told the Financial Times on Tuesday.
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The official Xinhua News Agency has deleted at least two original articles on the documentary from its website, including one about the environment minister’s praise for the film. The other deleted article is about how the film has become a hot topic at the parliament meeting. Both articles are still available on other news sites.
Xinhua has requested other media not to republish several other related articles remaining on its site, according to screenshots of the request that circulated on Weibo, the Twitter-like microblog platform.
A duty secretary at Xinhua surnamed Zhu said she was not aware of a notice sent to media clients.
The film is no longer a trending topic on Weibo, although it is not clear whether the change is the result of censorship. Posts featuring the Xinhua screenshot have also been deleted.
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China maintains a multi-layered censorship apparatus that includes both explicit directives to media organisations from the Communist party’s propaganda department, self-censorship by news organisations and social media platforms, and outright blockages of some foreign websites.
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This website is already crap without your high res images.
Best line of hte documentary:
"Not enforcing the law forces people to cheat"
And if you saw it, you gotta unsee it too, or else!
Well at least the Bongo's "Net Neutrality" folks have a playbook to follow now.
Poor people. They are under the dome and in a bubble.
We need to export our glorious EPA to do God's work in China.
I will use my phone and my pen!
Hope, Hope and Change!!!
Meh, the US has 'soft censorship' with its MSM. It's the difference between Rhodesians and Leninists, the former are soft in their approach to control, the latter more harsh.
Communism and Islam are two most horrible things human has ever invented.
I would say usuary beats those by a wide margin.
There was only one relio/ethnic group allowed by their laws to commit that sin, back in the old days. As long as they only commited it against the go.... er... "others".
Central banking is Counterfeiting. Punishable by death.
Central planning does not necessarily mean communist. Wake up - the US is centrally planned by oligarchs and they use the economy as a tool for ther domination. People are so stupid they will confuse fascism with communism because it isn't 'muricanism.
And this is the country that's going to dominate the world in a few years?
Well, OK, maybe they will. But only because the US is going full-comunist at this point as well. Let the battle of the clueless central plannners begin. And when that fails, let slip the dogs of war.
You can not tell a Lie without someone knowing the truth. Censors are people too. I always listen to what they don't say harder than what they do say..
of course the west will seize on this as horrible , always pointing fingers at everyone but themselves.
my question is this; what if the chinese governmetn has simply established that extreme pollution is a necessary consequence of rapid industrialization as the same exact pattern happened in all western nations.
only, china is about 3 times the scale and so the problem simply has to be swept under the rug for now because electricity plants simply MUST be built.
it is , perhaps sadly, just part of the equation.
Clearly you do not understand how bad the air pollution is over here in China. Many people are moving out and relocating in US, NZ, Australia just so that their kids can breathe!
What are you, Falun Gong?
Alarmist running dog.
this is great for my BYD shares.
BYD builds electric cars, over 200 million people have seen this video.
What if 1 in a 1000 people decide to buy a electric car to stop pollution.
That is 200.000 exta electric cars sold.
BYD has the longest range and most affordable EV's on the market and you get $10-20K USD back from the government when buying one.
This should be a great sales year for BYD, if not F*CK ME DEAD!
Thermal oxidizers. Oh and stop wasting so much.
To bad they couldn't make the smog disappear with the video.
not available in Germany.......
At least it got an airing ...
There was a great investigative program on ABC 4-Corners this week, about Apple and its Dickensian work places and literally lethal exploitation of people right across Asia. It's disgusting shit, basically flat-out modern slavery and misery. It runs to about 46 mins, all worth seeing. I'm not an Apple owner, but after seeing this horror story, I'm very glad I'm not.
Four Corners - Apple's Broken PromisesWhy am I not suprised this is unavailable in the U.S.
I watched it and China sucks.
deja vu
Kinda like what Washington did with the missing Ukrainian ATC tapes of MH17
This situation is more complicated than expressed here. It is a thread that runs through the tapestry of SOEs and the government. If we unravell it, the directives against touting Chai's film has some other dimensions. The film makes explicit that the oil companies ( Sinopec, China Petro) are significantly implicated in the pollution. Her film, that was released and an interview with China Daily, elicited an overwhelming response on the internet. This was coordinated with the Lianghui meetings. The corruption purge has substantially hit these entities and the thread runs through the Shanxi clique (coal and steal) allied with individuals at the top of these firms. However, since the gov. is the source of all do-gooding, and having destroyed civil society to make the point that all good actions come from them, the censors have tamped this down (due to overwhelming civil society response). Now the Lianghui meeting and Li and Xi have taken control. It is the Party that will 'solve' this problem. They have explicitly state that corruption and pollution will be their target.
One may ask, who is ultimately to blame, And, is the fox guaeding the hens.
The thing about pollution, and cancer, is that the elites are also equally exposed to it. So I'm guessing a lot of Beijing's upper level politicians have watched that video and thought to themselves it's time to get out of Dodge.
China has Beijing (north capital), Nanjing (south capital), Dongjing (sort of east capital but it means Tokyo) but no Xijing (West Capital). I could see them move the government functions of Beijing to a new capital out west in the next 10-20 years.
It was revealed in 2013 that the majority of the delegates to both lianghui, have foreign passports, foreign residency or children born outside of China. I think this answers your question/remarks.