Comments on: Chinese web censors block terms related to "Occupy," to stamp out movement's spread in China

By: Josh Jasper

Josh Jasper — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:42:00 +0000

“We feel that there are issues here that are worth pondering,” said Liu Weimin, a foreign ministry spokesman during a regular briefing in Beijing.

“We have also noticed that in the media there has been a lot of commentary, discussion and reflection. But we think that all of these reflections should be conducive to maintaining the sound and steady development of the world economy,”

Liu Weimin, Chinese Foreign Minister in the US.

So, clearly, the proletariat rebelling is awesome as long as it does not happen inside China, because in China, everything is perfect, and any criticism is counter-revolutionary.

Cue the paid PRC flac-bots to tell us Americans (and Canadians and Brits) all off in 5… 4… 3… 2…

By: Steve Nordquist

Steve Nordquist — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:34:00 +0000

I guess if it’s Sina Weibo it’s just a SEO knockout; I’m not really sure loused offers for housing loans from banking, traders, brokerage and some aspect of the unified PRC compliance processes (well…Tuesdays it is, for sure) are relevant in the same way, so it is hard to believe that someone is missing the opportunity to general discontent with catering from Nobu.

By: Heleen Mees

Heleen Mees — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:30:00 +0000

By now I have two Chinese ‘fans’ (followers) on Sina Weibo who respond to my ’Occupy Beijing!’ so my comments are definitely not blocked:http://weibo.com/2423664321/fans

By: benher

benher — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:18:00 +0000

When protest videos leak to the rest of their populace, their porky officials will just blame Japan or Taiwan or the US or Tibet or Falun gong or Martians…

PS: Stay classy Yahoo!

By: Thebes

Thebes — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:42:00 +0000

Once again China is copying American businesses.
The first few days of the #occupywallstreet YAHOO was censoring emails. Corporations are always quicker than governments.

Of course, China admits that they are intentionally subverting Free Speech. Yahoo issued a bullshit excuse that the corporate media pretended to believe.

By: Heleen Mees

Heleen Mees — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:48:00 +0000

Also, I signed up for Sino Weibo, typed three different versions of Occupy Beijing and my messages have not been blocked as of yet: http://weibo.com/2423664321

By: Heleen Mees

Heleen Mees — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:01:00 +0000

Perhaps my Chinese is not good enough, but I get tons of hits when I type 占据北京, 占用北京 or 占有北京 (three different versions of Occupy Beijing) here in Beijing using Chinese Google. Moreover, the coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests has been extensive in The China Daily, with an early editorial even suggesting that the United States was censoring news reporting on OWS.

By: James

James — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:30:00 +0000

Well time to use l33t speak I guess.

Fuck China. What a bunch of douche bags that government is. Surely Paul Ryan would feel right at home there.

By: truffle

truffle — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:22:00 +0000

Occupy Lhasa and Urumqi could get really interesting…

In a way, this kind of protest feels more suited to China than NYC.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:49:00 +0000

How will the conservatives manage to distort this into a negative for OWS, I wonder? This surely proves once and for all OWS is in league with the Nazi party somehow.

…or, they’ll just hide their head in the sand and pretend this never happened, I suppose…

By: gnomemaker

gnomemaker — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:27:00 +0000

How about dis-occupy Tibet?

By: dagfooyo

dagfooyo — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:11:00 +0000

Hopefully this is a sign that the Occupy movement is taking root in China – how freaking cool! If anywhere in the world could use more economic equality, not to mention, you know, civil liberties, human rights etc., it’s China.