Chinese Government Takes Down Anti-Pollution Documentary "Under The Dome"

An anonymous reader writes with a link to BBC's report that [A]uthorities in China have removed from websites a popular documentary which highlights the country's severe pollution problem. Under the Dome explains the social and health costs of pollution, and was watched by more than 100 million people online, sparking debates. It was removed just two days after Premier Li Keqiang called pollution a blight on people's lives. Searching YouTube gives you a pretty good idea of what the Chinese government doesn't want people to see.

Comments

No link?

[ArcadeMan]

I guess there's so much smog that even links can't be seen.

Re:No link?

[Anonymous Coward]

The Simpsons Movie taken seriously??? I just watched the trailer.... and this is funneh!!!

Re:No link?

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't even notice the lack of a link. I think I was too focused on "have a removed".

Re:No link?

[Anonymous Coward]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Not really hard to find.

It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

it's just grooming of morale. Pollution isn't opinion, and nobody is denying the presence of pollution, but it isn't so that the Chinese government wants the pollution to be there. They want to get rid of it just as bad as everyone else, but these gloomy documentaries aren't helping the cause, they just cast a dark shadow over China and its government.

Re:It's not censorship

[fustakrakich]

...these gloomy documentaries aren't helping the cause...

Yes they do... They motivate people to demand action to clean up, and to remind them we can have nice things and a clean planet. The 'dark shadow' over the government is well deserved when it doesn't respond. I find your response highly suspect.

Re:It's not censorship

[Zontar The Mindless]

Are you high? Of course it's censorship. A textbook example of it, in fact. Whatever the rationale might be for it does not alter that fact.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not helping the least, just causing mis-directed anger. Do you think people don't know "they can have nice things and a clean planet?". Have you even read the news lately, or do you inform yourself solely on Slashdot? The government IS responding and is working hard to clean up its polluting industries and aging vehicle fleet, but after these decades of explosive growth, it takes time. The documentaries should instead let people know what the government is doing, what's in the planning, and what the Chinese people can do to help out.

Do you find my response and call for reason suspect? I can only assume you are completely blunt and dulled then.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you dumb? It's not about whether it technically is or is not propaganda. Your user-name suits you well.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

No i think its actually the pollution that is casting a dark shadow over china.

Re:It's not censorship

[deesine]

Observe the little documentary casting a shadow over big China.

Your censorship apologia would sweep away all things gloomy: fellow citizens, think positive! (or else)

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

they just cast a dark shadow over China and its government.

Spot the Chinese government shill.

Something is casting a dark shadow over China and its government, and it's not these documentaries.

And besides, if making the government look like a bunch of greedy, incompetent, immoral, selfish evil assholes (WHICH THEY ARE) is something these documentaries accomplish, then all the better, because your country's excrement is starting to affect the entire planet. If this does even a little bit to help spur the world into action against you, it's a blessing.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop lying to yourself, and to others. Stop excusing and defending abhorrent behavior.

Look up what the word "integrity" means.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

The documentaries should instead let people know what the government is doing

Documentaries should document. Ideally a documentary is completely objective, only observing, allowing the viewer to reach their own conclusions. What you describe is propaganda.

Re:It's not censorship

[Justpin]

Its kinda of bollocks though, in that this isn't something invisible people can stick their heads out the window and not see more than 100m due to the smog in some cities. Or the sludge in the rivers...

Re:It's not censorship

[pijokela]

I watched the document earlier today. It's not gloomy. It has a very clear call to action with many realistic ideas of how to combat pollution. Actually watching it made me think that maybe China can get this pollution situation fixed some day.

Maybe you should watch it too?

Re:It's not censorship

[kylemonger]

It's one thing to see smog out the window day after day, it's another to find out how widespread the pollution is, or to see green beaches, exploded trees, and river water so polluted that it doesn't look like water. The U.S. would be where China is right now were it not for the people who raised enough hell fifty years ago that we have the EPA today.

Re:It's not censorship

[sjames]

they just cast a dark shadow over China and its government.

How can they tell?

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

You're shit at "spotting," and you seem paranoid.

Re:It's not censorship

[ideonexus]

I vehemently disagree. I highly recommend taking the 16 minutes and 39 seconds to actually watch the most compelling part of the documentary before trying to wave it away as "gloomy documentaries." For you to say such a thing shows that, contrary to your statement, you are denying the presence of pollution--or at least the social responsibility we all have to improve our health, life spans, and quality of life by regulating pollution.

I live in Washington DC and spend a great deal of time worrying about my health and the health of my children because our air quality here can get so bad that we have Red Ozone Days where we are told to keep our children inside, especially if they have any respiratory conditions, which they are more likely to have thanks to the poor air quality. I think it a blessing that NASA and the EPA monitor our air quality and that the local papers light a fire of panic under everyone's feet about the need to improve it because childhood leukemia and other cancers aren't something we should just shrug at.

Awareness of pollution is why we have Catalytic converters in our cars to dramatically reduce the toxic nature of the exhaust coming out of them. It's why we banned Lead Gasoline and ended the crime wave having that chemical in our brains unleashed on our culture. It's why air quality has improved over the last 10 years as new technologies, improved MPG, and other environmental regulations, but we still have much more to do.

It's also a moral issue for us, because our Made-In-China marketplace is why they have so much pollution. We want cheap goods and they turn a blind eye to the pollution to keep the products cheap. But that pollution is making it's way back to us over the Pacific Ocean. I want to keep buying cheap stuff from China, but I am also willing to pay a little more if it allows the Chinese people to improve their health.

The Chinese government should let people understand the science and choose for themselves.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

don't look now, but you've got the 50 cent brigade after you...

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

As if the government and its industries had no idea pollution was getting worse over time. They KNEW and did not care. Now that enough people are complaining and seeing it, they are suddenly the good guys by coming up with a plan on paper? You sound like my kids or basically a majority of millennials I've had the pleasure of working with over the years. They decide they want to get a better job or a job and suddenly that is enough to give them a good feeling about themselves without actually doing anything other then talking about it. As if you are supposed to be proud of them because they decide it's time to step up and support themselves or make themselves better and "plan" for the future. That concept is something they were told since early in junoir high or high school, not 1-4 years AFTER it. Then they might take it to the next step and "apply" for a job by filling out online applications and possibly sending a resume. They feel better again because hey, they are looking, they tried, they gave it their full effort and are doing something. It's not their fault no one is calling them back. Heaven forbid them having to follow up on the application, going to the business and handing someone the resume if possible and finding anything and everything they can about the company. Until they are motivated to actually go through the whole process and actually GET that job and report their first day, they don't have it. That is when I give them the congrats for a job well done.

Nothing different here with the Chinese pollution and the solutions to it.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

these gloomy documentaries aren't helping the cause

Censorship precisely is the banning of materials that don't help one's cause. What you're really arguing is that censorship is justified in this case because if people saw the documentary they would be unhappy and want there to be changes, which would be a problem for China's government. I don't find that argument compelling, though I imagine that people working in China's government would.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

Zontar didn't say anything about propaganda. Does your boss know how much maotai you had before you came to work today?

Re:It's not censorship

[St.Creed]

It is well-known that the government is still very unwilling to touch the heavy industries that pollute the most, especially in cities where there is just one employer. They're also very hesitant to bring polluters to justice, even if they pour poison freely into the river that supplies the city next door with drinking water.

It's high time Chinese folks understood that pollution is not a natural occurrence that cannot be prevented, but occurs because the cost of doing business is paid out of their health.

Re:It's not censorship

[rtb61]

Tricky thing though. How can you censor information about pollution from people who wear masks daily because of pollution. So likely it is more about repackaging and delivery at a more controllable pace to prevent mob reaction as they have quite a large mob to deal with. What is interesting in the documentary is the denial, they know the problem, they can not really pretend that it is not happening. However they live in denial preferring a comfortable lie, rather than an uncomfortable truth. How will they react, when the truth is forced on them, in the typical mob way? Seek a culprit or group of culprits to blame for everything, persecute them and then, once sufficient time has passed, months, go back to denial and the comfortable lie. That is the self evident truth of people who run around everyday needing to wear masks to breath without coughing because of pollution wanting to pretend the pollution is not that bad. You can not censor what people already know, just refuse to admit it because it might economically disadvantage them even when the reality is failing to act is going to not only hugely shorten the life but inevitably will hugely economically disadvantage them. The real problem is greed driven stupidity, most of the pollution is because they are too cheap to spend the extra money to reduce the level of pollution being generated and they all know it and participate in it and there is now way anyone could even try to censor that from them, their own individual greed lets them self censor and that is the real problem. Oh Look, America and climate change, there is a whole lot of that exact same greed driven stupidity and self censorship going on. You do censor information from those who choose to be ignorant, they do it to themselves and often scream at you and attack you if you try to expose them to the uncomfortable truth.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you high? Of course it's censorship. A textbook example of it, in fact. Whatever the rationale might be for it does not alter that fact.

Let this be a reminder to every slashdotter that the USA isn't such a terrible place after all.

Re:It's not censorship

[CaptainDork]

China is America at the height of the industrial revolution.

Re:It's not censorship

[fustakrakich]

The documentaries should instead let people know what the government is doing...

You are free to write one yourself. You have no right to tell other people they can't just because you don't like the content. Your posts appear to be very suspiciously like ones of a government 'employee', very likely in in their public relations department. There is no other logic behind them.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you high? Of course it's censorship. A textbook example of it, in fact. Whatever the rationale might be for it does not alter that fact.

It is censorship, but it isn't necessarily bad. The populations in most democratic societies are conditioned to see censorship as bad for obvious reasons, but we still allow certain restrictions on information, and more may be good. The entire structure of American elections is fundamentally unhealthy because of communication strategies that focus on *not* engaging the issues, for example, and it may be that some restrictions on free speech are essential even for a functioning democracy to govern effectively.

Suppose they make something available in libraries but not on youtube, for example, because it has a major net negative effect on the economy or the education level of the population.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you high? Of course it's censorship. A textbook example of it, in fact. Whatever the rationale might be for it does not alter that fact.

Let this be a reminder to every slashdotter that the USA isn't such a terrible place after all.

I'm pretty sure the poster you quoted lives in Europe. :)

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

It is censorship, but it isn't necessarily bad.

It is none of:

1. National defense

2. Someone's private info

3. Somebody trying to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre when there is none

So, yes, it IS necessarily bad.

Re:It's not censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah not shill, the proper term is 'running dog'. How about that one?

Re:It's not censorship

[fustakrakich]

Yep, you are definitely working in a government's 'public relations' department. Censorship is always bad, regardless of the culture. Nobody has the right to decide what others can see and say. I am for anything that forces a government to respond to its citizens. And this kind of reporting makes them respond faster, which is a good thing. It helps people see through the facade, and it exposes who the government serves. This helps to motivate them to fix their government. We are on one planet. The pollution does not respect your borders. If it did, nobody would care if the Chinese suffocated themselves in their smog. The propaganda you post here is written by the bad guys and is nothing but a blatant appeal to authority. You can't hide that fact behind the AC moniker.

So long as it continues cheap good for US market

[Anonymous Coward]

I think it's okay if it swirls in filth.

Search youtube

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess a link is too much to ask?

RTFA

[Fieryphoenix]

I wish I could.

BBC article

[Delphii]

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-as...

Re:BBC article

[Zontar The Mindless]

Please don't link to poxy mobile versions of sites. Let those who enjoy suffering just because they're using a phone or tablet get redirected to them. Thank you.

Re:BBC article

[l0ungeb0y]

I for one shall make a point to post as many links from my mobile devices as possible If only because it rustles the jimmies of crotchety old assholes like Zontar the Mindless, bearer of the most accurate nick ever. iGadgets are prevalent, and soon shall be the most common means to access web sites. Get used to it or get used to be ridiculed for being an clueless old fart too stupid to figure out how to use a "view standard version" link or to realize that most sites automatically redirect to the standard version when a desktop browser is detected, as the parent's link did.

Re:BBC article

[Anonymous Coward]

mobile design sucks. responsive sucks.

Re:BBC article

[Mashiki]

That's actually kinda funny, since his post appeared to rustle your jimmies so badly that you're throwing a hissy fit over it. Maybe it's time to take a step back from this lovely digital world, and wonder why your post comes across as a self-absorbed iAsshole.

Re:BBC article

[Powercntrl]

iGadgets are prevalent, and soon shall be the most common means to access web sites. Get used to it or get used to be ridiculed for being an clueless old fart too stupid to figure out how to use a "view standard version" link or to realize that most sites automatically redirect to the standard version when a desktop browser is detected, as the parent's link did.

Many mobile sites don't offer the option to switch to "desktop view". Of those that do, it's fairly common to get thrown right back to the "mobile" view, after clicking on another link. The transition can also fail in any number of frustrating ways. I've seen sites that automatically re-direct back to the "mobile" view, or take you to the main homepage of the site, rather than shown the "desktop version" of the article you desired. Lately, user agent spoofing doesn't seem to be as effective; it seems sites are using some other browser metadata to determine if the user is a mobile device.

The irony is that a sub-$100 Windows 8.1 tablet with a 1280x800 resolution has no trouble viewing the real web, but a modern flagship smartphone with a Quad HD 2560x1440 display (hell, that's better than my laptop), gets stuck browsing the mobile web. I can only conclude that some web developers must simply hate smartphone users.

Re:BBC article

[Anonymous Coward]

Please don't link to poxy mobile versions of sites. Let those who enjoy suffering just because they're using a phone or tablet get redirected to them. Thank you.

I followed the link and got redirected to the non-mobile site. Did you even try the link before you started bitching about it?

Re:BBC article

[Zontar The Mindless]

I've heard that phones manufactured in the current decade have screen resolutions much greater than 320x240.

Perhaps it's time that you considered an upgrade?

Re:BBC article

[Zontar The Mindless]

I read the BBC story already. Just up late and bored, so I thought I'd see if I could troll some iFanboi, and l0ungeb0i eagerly took the bait.

Re:BBC article

[Anonymous Coward]

Well aren't you a dick.

Re:BBC article

[Zontar The Mindless]

Yes. We can be assured that there's always another self-absorbed drama queen coming round the bend, ready and willing to provide us a bit of free entertainment to spice up an otherwise dull moment. Isn't life grand?

Where are the edge-lords

[Anonymous Coward]

arguing about an actual example of free speech being suppressed by a government. Oh it's not about something outrageous they said, stay edgy.

Disposable Products By Disposable People

[Anonymous Coward]

Who care what people making Disposable products do?

Cheap disposable products. made by labor that is same.

Someone has to be the sh*t shovellers, we can't all be 1st world countries.

Re: Disposable Products By Disposable People

[Anonymous Coward]

As long as it isn't you.

Chinks will do what chinks do

[Anonymous Coward]

Why meddle in their business, snob Americans?

Link to videos, with English subtitles

[C3ntaur]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Re:Link to videos, with English subtitles

[wonkey_monkey]

Thank you for doing what Slashdot apparently couldn't (be arsed to).

Re:Link to videos, with English subtitles

[yoyoofthemilk]

Thanks. I also found a full video one instead of a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Re:Link to videos, with English subtitles

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you for doing what Slashdot apparently couldn't (be arsed to).

What, and pass up all that sweet China ad-revenue by getting blocked?

You should not be surprised in the slightest.

Re:Link to videos, with English subtitles

[Anonymous Coward]

How about a torrent for our friends in places where they block YouTube? Like... say... China.

Is wasn't before it was

[SuperKendall]

In a previous story on this documentary, I read that a number of national news sources were promoting the film. So what changed that they would take it down now?

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[Justpin]

Because Xi has made a pledge (yeah even though its a one party state they still have to make promises) to combat pollution. People kind of give the CCP the benefit of the doubt sometimes because they see their lives improve a bit... things contrary to things getting better go against the CCP line. Kind of like how jobs figures and GDP are fudged in western countries to make it seem like it is better than it is. Or how the party in Orwellian books edit news archives of the past to make predictions of Big brother look correct.

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[tp1024]

Most likely foreign (western) involvement, which is one of the two things you shouldn't do in Chinese politics.

After being dominated by foreign powers for a mere 110 years there is a certain lack of trust within the Chinese government, as soon as there is foreign involvement in its politics. The movie was picked up by foreign media and foreign activist groups - and that's when it fell from grace.

The other thing you shouldn't do in Chinese politics is criticize the government - in the strict sense. That is: it is OK to criticize the politics OF the government, but it's not OK to criticize the government itself. This is a distinction commonly lost to people here and leads to the impression, that the censorship is arbitrary. Well, it is not.

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[Anonymous Coward]

I was just in China. I saw a feature story about this doco on Xinwen Lianbo (evening news) on CCTV-1 a few nights ago. So did about 200 Chinese people who were sitting in the same restaurant as me at the time.

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[earthminion]

@"Kind of like how jobs figures and GDP are fudged in western countries to make it seem like it is better than it is"

That's the same game policians play in every country. They want to keep their jobs so they want everyone to "think" things are better than they are. That's why there is such an interest in censoring and controling the news and when they can't censor there's always distraction tactics, such as releasing bad news when other high profile news stories are taking all the headlines. (One PR droid famously suggested the day after Diana Princess of Wales died was a good day to release bad news for the British government).

All the politicians are playing this game. Its all distraction and control tactics over the people they claim to represent, because if too many people suddenly heard bad news, they may well stand up against the people in power. Its why the politicians never want us all to know the truth. Its the real reason why the politicians feared the first wiki leaks stories. Simple fact was with so many people with that level of access any government could have had as many spies as they liked with that same level of access. So the only people who didn't know the truth were the people the governments claim to represent. They don't represent us, and never have, they represent themselves. We just get to make a binary (Hobson's) choice once every 4 years to choose between two groups of power hungry people who want to control us (for their own gain) and then we get no more say in how our lives are run, because they don't really want us to know the truth ... and so their Game of Thrones goes on. We are just pawns and always have been and always will be.

Don't believe me? ... don't worry, there will be some more news along very shortly that'll make you forget everything you've just heard me say and almost every bit of bad news you've heard this week will soon be forgotten as well. Welcome to our future, our Brave New World, where we are even less able to influence the power games over us than we have ever been, all because everyone is getting so distracted by so many news stories.

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[murdocj]

It's not just politicians who play this game. It's everybody. Ever been in a status meeting (whups, standup) where a dev glossed over something? Or emphasized something to avoid bringing up something that would look bad?

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[earthminion]

That's why its called office politics ... which is well named and has been recognised for a very long time ... (and you'll usually find the one's who deny there's office politics where you work, so often turn out to be the biggest office poltics power game players behind people's backs).

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[St.Creed]

Was that before the People's Congres, or after?

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[poity]

The order to take the videos offline was sent to all media companies. These orders are always secret, but a worker at the office of a Shanghai media company decided to leak the document. In this document, the Public Relations Department (literally Propaganda Dept, but "propaganda" doesn't have negative connotations in Chinese) orders the video taken down and that all media organizations must cease covering the topic. It cites the upcoming Lianghui ("Meeting of Two") government conference, and a pressing need for "online harmony" to precede those governmental deliberations as the reason, saying the public debate has gotten too popular/heated. So it looks like they had a change of mind after seeing the massive response. Report also says the worker has been suspended.
http://www.ftchinese.com/story...
http://www.boxun.com/news/gb/c...

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[Anonymous Coward]

The every day citizens beat the government hands down when it comes to creating distractions. Mindless populism coupled with a heavy dose of shrill hysterics are not the answer to solving problems today. However if you step back and look at the complete picture you will see that the US government is the most transparent since it's founding. It's not 100% transparent by any means but it is still a work in progress. The US government has never been worth a damn when it comes to keeping secrets and the electronic age has certainly not made it any easier.

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[fustakrakich]

This is a distinction commonly lost to people here and leads to the impression, that the censorship is arbitrary. Well, it is not.

Arbitrary or not, censorship is evil. And when Chinese smog comes to California we all have damn good right to say something about it.

Re:Is wasn't before it was

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, it's not like the government doesn't intentionally 'leak' out false information or anything to see who picks it up. The US government has never been so powerful as it is now. Its clients have never gotten a bigger bang for the buck. China and Russia are suffering extreme penis envy. They will always be wannabes against the UK/US empire. This is why they lash out. They are B grade material, always. The typical 'brute force' attack with nothing but sheer numbers to throw into the conflagration. The last 7 years have been absolutely disastrous for their arms industries and Ms. Hillary deserves a Meddle of Honor for her accomplishments.

thank you

[rewindustry]

when i searched i kept getting links to some stupid escape media tv serial out of the blighted states.

says a lot, really, the things our resepective cultures prefer.

Re:thank you

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh please. Do you think there's no mindless TV in China, or, FFS, no environmental documentaries in the US? Your search results reveal nothing except that giving your documentary the same name as a currently airing TV show leads to confusion. Perhaps Google is just judging you based on your past search behavior because I get the documentary as the first search result.

Obligatory Firesign

[bmo]

"Where there's smoke there's work."

--
BMO

Dur, how does the World Wide Web work again?

[wonkey_monkey]

An anonymous reader writes with a link

...that he's apparently unwilling to share with the rest of us. Thanks!

Searching YouTube

Searching YouTube? How about acting like a professional news site instead, and providing a simple, clickable, link?

Did Tim Berners-Lee die in vain?!

I expect a news story, not homework and a test. Yes, I'm lazy. That's why I visit news sites in the first place instead of roaming the world to see things first hand.

Re:Dur, how does the World Wide Web work again?

[bmo]

Did Tim Berners-Lee die in vain?!

No, he died in Washington DC.

BABE: I see ...well, who am us, anyway?

EDDIE: We're one of you, and you're one of us, I think.

JOE: Maybe ...

DC: Possibly ...

BABE: How do you tell? How do you know for sure? How do you ever really know?

JOE: They didn't ask questions like that back in 1776! No, they didn't have time back in 1776! Back in 1776, boy, they were too busy singing songs like...

EDDIE [Singing]:

"Yankee Doodle came to terms,
Writing Martin Buber.
Stuck a Fuhrer in our back,
And called it Shicklegruber!"

--
BMO

Damn Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

"There's a BBC story about Chinese censorship, you should google it" is pretty poor reporting, even for you.

I knew China was polluted but...

[kylemonger]

"I cut up a lemon and put it beside my pillow. When I returned to Beijing, I discovered I was pregnant."

Now that is serious pollution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

EP?

[Anonymous Coward]

the 4roblems

Hey China!

[Greyfox]

Like hiding your head in the sand, eh? I'd like to introduce you to India, but they'd probably rape you.

Re:Hey China!

[MillionthMonkey]

Ironically, India is also trying to ban a documentary, about a rape that happened on a bus in New Delhi ("India's Daughter").

Re:Hey China!

[Greyfox]

It's not ironic! It's just coincidental!

Re:Hey China!

[Rick in China]

The issue isn't about burying heads in sand. People here discuss pollution daily. It's on the news, it's in the media. The premier, last Thursday, made a speech about pollution and how the gov't vows to continue fighting pollution, calling it a "blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts". There is a huge effort in China to try to curb the pollution issue, and as someone who lives here and has serious concerns about the air, I can attest to watching the AQI (US consulate sourced) in a variety of cities.. and I believe pollution is *actually* getting a little better in the last couple years compared to airpocolypses that was slamming our lungs in the past. I don't claim to know why this docu. was removed from Chinese media specifically but I would guess it has less to do with the content itself, and more to do with controlling the narrative. Rest assured, though, pollution isn't being 'hidden' from the Chinese public, it's being breathed in daily.

Watched the whole thing

[Anonymous Coward]

Watched the whole thing. Excellent. Informative, well made.
I can see the government doesn't like "the people" agitating on their own.

Under The Dome

[antdude]

I thought this was about Stephen King's novel and television/TV s(eries/how). :P

Re:Under The Dome

[ihtoit]

that's what I thought as well... but considering that was such a fucking abortion (I mean seriously? King wrote THAT crap??)...

Re:Under The Dome

[antdude]

More like CBS wrote that? Haha! I stopped watching it in the beginning of season 2.

The weird thing is that..

[Anonymous Coward]

In America, certain people are trying to censor our own flag...

blue and radioactive

[Anonymous Coward]

please bookmark this youtube video.
of course pollution sucks. it also sucks that people xont care much for where electricity comes from.
i have the suspicion that this is a propaganda video of the nuclear industry to push more "clean" energy onto the world.
so in 20 years you can revisit the bookmarked video when the first nuclear reactor goes liquid under a healthy blue sky in china...
every damn new building roof should be covered with pv panels or not get a building permit!