And It’s Gone! After 3 Days, Beijing Bans Discussion Of Viral China Smog Documentary
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2015 22:30 -0500
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…
As The FT reports,
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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Smoke Jensen
Wow! This explains the film I have to wipe off of all of my new iGadgets. Who knew?
I see several opportunities here.
1. Ship all of our enviro nazis over there stat.
2. If there was ever a market for the Chevy Volt, China is it. We could include a free 2.5 micron filter mask with each car. Once the batteries go kaput they could recylcle them into iGadget batteries. Win win.
3. Once they begin to fill those ghost cities the job market for window, street, and car washers is going to explode. Invest heavily in soaps, Windex and rags.
4. Monsanto could engineer pollution resistant fruits and veggies with rags from the clean up industry used as fertilizer.
If the Chinese people really wanted to get their shit bag government to do something about the pollution you’d only have to tell bureaucrats how much income they’re losing from the loss of lung transplants.
My son and daughter studied Chinese in high school, and their school took annual trips to China, including Beijing. My kids did not make the trip, but many of their friends did, virtually every one of them came down with some sort of cough, chest and or nasal problem. I told my daughter she could go, but with asthma she decided against it, thank God. She does still study Chinese 5 days a week in college and is quite proficient at it, though her major is biology. Someone compared China to the US in the early from 1900 to 1960 pollution wise. My response was China did 4 to 5 times the damage in less than half the time. There will be no happy ending to the Chinese pollution problem.
Bob.
Bob
One of the best side effects of the internet is that it exposes attempts at censorship in such an obvious, public way.
So how close are the Chinese to a tipping point? Do they choke to death in large numbers, or reach of for ‘living space’? Llpoh, keep a lookout from your near home! Either way, not exactly the scenario the China fearmongers have been pushing…
Bob
Please excuse my typing — I have relapsed…
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And It’s Gone! After 3 Days, Beijing Bans Discussion Of Viral China Smog Documentary
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2015 22:30 -0500
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…
As The FT reports,
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.
…
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.
…
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.
* * *
Wow! This explains the film I have to wipe off of all of my new iGadgets. Who knew?
I see several opportunities here.
1. Ship all of our enviro nazis over there stat.
2. If there was ever a market for the Chevy Volt, China is it. We could include a free 2.5 micron filter mask with each car. Once the batteries go kaput they could recylcle them into iGadget batteries. Win win.
3. Once they begin to fill those ghost cities the job market for window, street, and car washers is going to explode. Invest heavily in soaps, Windex and rags.
4. Monsanto could engineer pollution resistant fruits and veggies with rags from the clean up industry used as fertilizer.
If the Chinese people really wanted to get their shit bag government to do something about the pollution you’d only have to tell bureaucrats how much income they’re losing from the loss of lung transplants.
My son and daughter studied Chinese in high school, and their school took annual trips to China, including Beijing. My kids did not make the trip, but many of their friends did, virtually every one of them came down with some sort of cough, chest and or nasal problem. I told my daughter she could go, but with asthma she decided against it, thank God. She does still study Chinese 5 days a week in college and is quite proficient at it, though her major is biology. Someone compared China to the US in the early from 1900 to 1960 pollution wise. My response was China did 4 to 5 times the damage in less than half the time. There will be no happy ending to the Chinese pollution problem.
Bob.
One of the best side effects of the internet is that it exposes attempts at censorship in such an obvious, public way.
So how close are the Chinese to a tipping point? Do they choke to death in large numbers, or reach of for ‘living space’? Llpoh, keep a lookout from your near home! Either way, not exactly the scenario the China fearmongers have been pushing…
Please excuse my typing — I have relapsed…