The New York Times reports on another protest, this time in Chengdu, the capital of Central China's Sichuan province. The peaceful rally was staged yesterday afternoon to voice concerns about an environmentally-unfriendly $5.5 billion petrochemical plant that's going up soon.
Once again, the internet and text messages were used to organize the protest, and (not-so) coincidentally, access to Blogspot and Wordpress have been blocked off for the last couple of days. Will the government just pull the plug on blogs every time there's a hint of something like this? Will they dare to do it during the Olympics, when travelers and journalists will inevitably have some not-so-nice things to blog about?
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