China Blocks Web Access to 'Under the Dome' Documentary on Pollution
(NY Times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/world/asia/china-blocks-web-access-to-documentary-on-nations-air-pollution.html
"Then on Friday afternoon, the momentum over the video came to an
abrupt halt, as major Chinese video websites deleted it under orders
from the Communist Party's central propaganda department. The
startling phenomenon of the video, the national debate it set off and
the official attempts to quash it reflect the deep political
sensitivities in the struggle within the Chinese bureaucracy to
reverse China's environmental degradation, among the worst in the
world. The drama over the video has ignited speculation over which
political groups were its supporters and which sought to kill it, and
whether party leaders will tolerate the civic conversation and
grass-roots activism that in other countries have been necessary to
curbing rampant pollution."
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