标题: Why Are the Chinese Enacting ‘Occupy Obama’ on Google+? [打印本页] 作者: 之之 时间: 2012-2-29 10:25 标题: Why Are the Chinese Enacting ‘Occupy Obama’ on Google+?
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.
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.”作者: hrbeu 时间: 2012-3-2 18:03
围观奥巴马作者: 之之 时间: 2012-3-2 19:25
US President Barack Obamas account on popular social network Google Plus has been swamped by Chinese posts, which analysts said indicates the Chinese publics wish to communicate with high-ranking leaders through new media.
The latest entries on Obamas Google Plus page over the weekend were related to the upcoming presidential election. They have attracted around 1,000 comments, mostly in simplified Chinese with some English translations.
Information released earlier on the page also received massive numbers of replies in Chinese during the past two days, although the social website has been inaccessible to Chinese Web users since its launch in June last year.
Chinese comments on his page range from joking expressions to seemingly serious discussions on certain topics. “Its everyones obligation to promote the Chinese language,” joked a user named Joe Zhao.
One of the followers, named Eric Chen, explained that many Chinese people came here to post because they could visit the website “without depending on some special tools。” Referring to VPN or proxy needed to open facebook and twitter in mainland.
According to a BBC report, Internet users in many parts of the mainland found on February 20 they could access Google Plus, prompting some of them to suggest occupying the site. AFP reported that Google Plus appeared to be available in the mainland Sunday on some peoples mobile devices.
