Monday, December 19, 2016

China's people choking on unbearable smog...can't complain about it on the internet.

The Daily Mail has a story about the incredible smog enveloping China.

Heavy air pollution in China has caused a spike in hospital visits, closed roads and forced the cancellations of flights.

...Most of China's smog is blamed on the burning of coal for electricity and heating, which spikes when demand peaks in winter.

...Chinese censors, who tightly control online commentary, were busily removing remarks about the smog from the twitter-like Weibo social media platform, according to the web site Freeweibo.com, which tracks posts deleted from the service.
One of them showed a headline from a March 1999 copy of the Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily newspaper pledging to "absolutely not let polluted air enter the new century."

Read more here.

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