“China’s pollution is at an unbearable stage”
China’s most popular social media site has been quickly censoring posts that criticize the country’s response to the horrifying smog problem, according to various media reports.
In a rare show of defiance against the Chinese government, the country’s state-run media site last week published two critical articles on the government’s environmental failures. Both posts were shared on Sina Weibo — a site most commonly likened to “China’s Twitter” — but were quickly deleted, both the New York Times and Reuters reported.
China Central Television’s articles criticize both the public’s and the government’s response to the smog, which this week reached 20 times the level considered safe by the World Health Organization. The first article starts with the line “Does anyone still care about Beijing’s smog?” while the other was titled “Beijing municipal government, don’t hide behind the thick smog.”
“The people have grown numb,” the channel wrote, saying the government must “protect its territory and not act ignorant.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/27/3336671/china-pollution-censorship/
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