Why Are the Chinese Enacting ‘Occupy Obama’ on Google+?
- Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:08pm by
Liz Klimas
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(Image: Google+/Barack Obama)
BEIJING (The Blaze/AP) — Chinese are flooding a Web page of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign on Google Inc.’s social networking service with comments, after China seemingly lifted long-standing blocks.
What some are calling “Occupy Obama” began early last week when Chinese Internet surfers noticed that Google’s Plus service was widely accessible, after months of being hard to access or blocked completely. The comments on the Obama campaign’s verified account are mostly in Chinese and reached a torrent in the last few days, drawing puzzlement and complaints from some American users.
Why are they doing this? Here’s one explanation from one of the commenters: ”We have no chance to occupy our president Hu,” said a posting in English under the name Wenbin Shang from Shanghai, referring to China’s leader Hu Jintao. “He hates internet and has no account on any sns website, so we can just occupy Obama, forgive us …”
Most of the comments seemed purely for fun; some asked for green cards. Many were overtly political, calling for the end of Communist Party rule and the freeing of a blind legal advocate, Chen Guangcheng, held captive in his home. “Mr. President, we want American freedom,” said a posting under the name Zhang Mian.
Example of comments on Barack Obama's Google+ account post on picking up 2012 presidential campaign bumper stickers. (Image: Google+)
The Internet offers the liveliest platform for communication in China, despite the government’s extensive monitoring and blocking of overseas sites deemed subversive as well as Facebook, Twitter and other social networking services that figured in popular protest movements. The Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States last year captivated many Chinese who appropriated the phrase for online campaigns.
PC World reports that even after the feature became what appears to be readily accessible for those in China, Joshua Kiley, an English teacher in China, told Mike Eagan, a tech buff who often writes for PC World, that Google+ is one of the easiest things in China to unblock. Kiley said that in order to do so “all you need is a couple IP’s to copy and paste into your hosts file.”
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Comments (50)
SGT Rock
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 7:58amWill he then hit them up for campaign donations so he can spread communism here?
Report Post »Xyskalla
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 12:20amThey just want to say, “Thank you, American President Obama-Spend-It-Now. Obama spends so much American money, you borrow more and more… from us. Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you, Obama-Spend-It-Now.”
Report Post »GUT_CHECK
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:38amgood one
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 12:05amMaybe they could tell him the evils of communism!
Report Post »BarackStalin
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:43pmmoo goo gai pan is my favorite
Report Post »IDareYa72
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:34pmDamn… I know most of you on this site hate being positive… but doesn’t anyone see this as a positive?? Who knew the Chinese people loved freedom so much!! I saw good for them and all freedom lovers worldwide…
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!!!!
Report Post »dianna9490
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:49pmHeck COULD THEY BE ASKING HIM TO COME THERE AND BE THEIR LEADER? GO PLEASE AND GET OUT OF THE USA!!!!!
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:44pmQuick, call out the “truth teams”.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:56pmfunny…….
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:50amTo China how do you say liar in Chinese shuōhuǎng zhě 说谎者
Report Post »Chris
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 4:14pmWhy does our president need Chinese help in his campaign? Why is this not truly disturbing?
Report Post »The Woot
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 4:35pmIt’s a Clinton thang…..Yo’
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:03pmMaybe they want him back.
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Report Post »aggiebrewer
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:43pmHu…..Obama not all that much difference. Fascist ideology to differing degrees…..
Go ahead progressives….sing your tired, old, song full of lies about how fascism is right wing…
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:25pmA song? Er, well…
Fascism is right-wing, fascism is right-wing, fascism is right-wing, cha cha cha!
…
I was never a very good musician, I suppose.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:35pm******, chinky, sir chinksalot. i love the new dirty words. just don’t type ***** in his armor.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:31pmBlaze does Glenn KNOW how PC you are? we can’t type the word *****. ***** in the armor.
Report Post »RoqueGerig
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 4:40pmCareful, your account will be restricted from making comments. Oh yes they will.
Report Post »ROMANS 10-9
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:27pmRomans 10:9
Romans 10:9 tells us that there are only two things needed for you to go to heaven and be with God forever…
“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)
The world we live in can be a scary place, but Romans 8:28 tells us that God is in control and reminds us that God has a plan to protect us and give our hearts peace. The plan is to have His son Jesus Christ pay the price for our mistakes, even though He did nothing wrong, so that we can have a perfect life in heaven, even though we don’t deserve it.
He offers this as a free gift to you because of His great love for you.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son, so that whoever believes in Him will not die, but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
Saving faith is trusting in Jesus Christ alone for your salvation.
‘For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God– not by works, so that no one can boast.’ (Ephesians 2:8,9)
Report Post »aggiebrewer
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:45pmOk I like the posting of scripture and I love Jesus…..but why exactly is this relevant to the story?
Report Post »I guess your name shows the sum total of your point on any topic…sorry
ROMANS 10-9
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:25pmRead Romans 10:9
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:22pmI am SO tired of the word-”Occupy.”
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 12:06amIt makes me think of bathrooms.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:18pmStrange you would call for the end of communist rule on the campaign sight of a communists, who has done more to pump up communism around the world than all other presidents combined.
Report Post »ProudAmericanConservative.Com
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:26pmWell, I agree… Do you have an alternative? I suggest finding one and offering it up to them!
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:17pmWow – even the Chinese have been duped!?!?!
Obama’s a self-described luddite; he loathes technological progress such as ATM’s, because they “put people out of work”.
I wonder if the younger generation will catch on before it’s too late? Yeah, I doubt it, also.
Report Post »loggs14
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:52pmSad… cause he will send green cards with the promise of your vote… Though some are naive… asking Obama for American freedoms, Obama is huge fan of communism… He thinks as long as he was leading it, it would turn out to be a great form of government…. don‘t they all start thinking that don’t they…
Report Post »Helpful
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:39pmMaybe Drum Man meant Slope instead of Slant, either way, he got his point across,……….and it was funny……………
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:44pmAND, taxable!!!!!!!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:49pmThe irony of course is Obama wants bigger government control here in the U.S. which brings it closer to what these Chinese are railing against.
Report Post »Just in time
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:37pmLooks like even the Chinese are sick of BHO.
Report Post »kegbuna
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:41pmYou might find it beneficial to read the articles before commenting on them.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:33pmYup.
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:31pmI LOVE, LOVE, LOVE irony!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:51pmLOL…you saw that too….here are the Chinese railing against government control of their lives and Obama seeks to broaden government control of Americans’ lives.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:17pm“Mr. President, we want American freedom,” said a posting under the name Zhang Mian.
I hate to break it to you but our burden ie president is a Marxist trying to fundamentally transform us into a communist state,and he has no intentions of trying to transform China into anything,he likes your ideology.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:39pmCouldn’t agree more …For many months I have put my definition of a Obama I call him and his ideology “New age progressive Communism”… New age because the old age communist a Mao or Starlin were all to happy to have blood on their hands to complete the control needed for communism…New age progressive communist uses the likes of what we see today OWS, Unions , civil rights groups leaders, and the endless list of circus clowns from gays, the environment earth people who basically are against everything form raising and producing food to providing fuel and electricity, the list is so long it would take a day to list the clowns that follow the ideology. If and when (soon) violence is needed to finish the push to their finish line these weak minded will be called into service as the bloody hands for the “New age progressive communist. The actual daily working fundamentals are all ready in place in our government..Supplying job, housing , education food and the control points through government regulation. We are going to witness first hand what happens when the free market free people and the ideology of the individual has a head on collision with communism right here in the cradle of freedom…Craziest part they are getting this done at the same time the old school (KGB) Putin is put back on top….You better believe they the communist are drooling right now feeling they are so close to the goal that started so many years ago.
Report Post »philipzhao
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:40pmThese self-hating Chinese failed to understand that Americans enjoy much less fredom than the Chinese. They watched too many American-Dream movies !!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:13pm.
“Mr. President, we want American freedom,” said a posting under the name Zhang Mian.
Get in line………
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 4:34pmExactly. We want ours back!
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:12pmPutting a new slant on things I see….
Report Post »icedmocha
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:21pmsorry Little Drummer Boy, I don’t get it? ‘Slant’ or ‘on things’ was that supposed to be humor? maybe we just found a “*****” in your armor, huh?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:42pmDRUM MAN:
Report Post »Don’t let someone take your sense of humor away. By the way, did you hear the one about the…………..? It’s great!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Drum Man
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:19pmLOL! Just because some people have NO sense of humor does not mean I won’t exercise mine!
Report Post »I’m entitled. I’m married to a beautiful Oriental woman!
cloudsofwar
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:27pm@ ice…. can we say ***** in your armor or is that racist know?
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:29pm@ ice…. guess not. this editing is sooooooooo foolish. ******, chinky, whats the problem?
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