'Occupy' Blocked In China, Joins Banned Search Terms On Microblog

The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread around the world in recent days. It has led to clashes with police in Melbourne, violence in Rome and massive protests. Protests in the U.S. have even shown hints of conflict in recent days.

China is watching developments carefully and doesn't want the movement to spread to its nation. An Occupy China Facebook page has already sprung up, along with other chatter on the topic.

The latest development: Chinese authorities have blocked phrases with the word 'Occupy' on the popular Chinese microblog Sina Weibo, China Digital Times reports.

"As a Chinese internet company, we will continue to abide by Chinese laws and regulations," a Sina spokesman said earlier this year.

The following phrases are among those blocked, per China Digital Times:

Occupy Beijing, Occupy Shanghai, Occupy Guangzhou, Occupy Xi'an, Occupy Chongqin, Occupy Tianjin, Occupy Urumqi, Occupy Lhasa, Occupy Changsha, Occupy Wuhan, Occupy Nanchang, Occupy Fuzhou, Occupy Nanjing, Occupy Dalian, Occupy Hangzhou, Occupy Harbin, Occupy Chengdu, Occupy Kunming, Occupy Hohhot, Occupy Haikou, Occupy Zhengzhou, Occupy Changchun, Occupy Shenyang, Occupy Xining, Occupy Lanzhou, Occupy Taiyuan, Occupy Yinchuan, Occupy Shijiazhuang, Occupy Jinan, Occupy Nanning.

Good.is senior editor Cord Jefferson wrote on the significance of the ban: "A good rule of thumb for life is that if the Chinese government is against it, you're probably doing something right."

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Comments

[kkdkdkdkdk]

02:32 PM on 10/25/2011

Surprise surprise, China won't let the "Occupiers Occupy." Something great about that nation, can't quite put my finger on it but something great. I like it when Communist are afraid of lefties.

[Jeffery Yoder]

01:42 PM on 10/25/2011

In there unsatible quest for profits, our so called Christian valued American Corporations could care less about human rights unless profits were the end result.

[LiamMc]

01:03 PM on 10/25/2011

"Any workers' "leader" who arms the bourgeois state with special means to control public opinion in general, and the press in particular, is a traitor." (Trotsky)

[disporting]

12:59 PM on 10/25/2011

They've got protests even if they banned the occupy movement.

[rsxsims]

12:00 PM on 10/25/2011

china doesnt allow things like 'occupy' to infilterate their country. there the people have no say in anything and are expected to take responsibility for their own lives. in the US, you have the 'share the wealth" liberal society, where you get to whine about your sad life of irresponsibility and want all your bills paided and a free education... no hard work or responsibility wanted.. nothing but blaming others, NO wonder china doesnt want 'occupy' there...

[rfjustin]

11:03 AM on 10/25/2011

Why isn't this on mainstream news stations? China is not the only one doing some censoring. The US is censoring it's own media. Goodbye land of the free; oh wait, we never really were.

[Jeff Forsythe]

09:46 AM on 10/25/2011

All anyone ever talks about referring to Communist China is finance. I guess the reason human rights are never mentioned is because there are none.
The brutal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has murdered eighty million of its own people since it took power in 1949 and since 1999 has been attempting the genocide of the tens of millions of innocent Falun Gong practitioners.
The media and the governments of the Western World have chosen to turn their backs on the plight of the good people of Mainland China in return for high dividends, which has backfired, as bad deeds usually do.
Especially in the USA, where Americans seem to have forgotten how tens of thousands of their children died in Vietnam fighting the spread of Communism. Americans, as well as Canadians, used to cherish human rights. What happened ?
Just my understanding, thank you.

[ultratrails2]

09:12 AM on 10/25/2011

I can think of a number of bankers that wish they were doing business in China right now.... oh wait,

nevermind.

[CynicalAgnostic]

07:48 AM on 10/25/2011

Chinese censorship is getting nearly as bad as the huffpost comments section ;-)

[QuakerJewish]

10:57 AM on 10/25/2011

It was a much freer forum before Ariana sold out.

[lightningbolt]

06:57 AM on 10/25/2011

China has one of the most tyrannical governments in the world, which means they need to be occupied by the people more than we do. We must help them spread the message. Let's show them that censorship is impossible.

[iewgnem]

12:05 PM on 10/25/2011

If you succeed in bring down the US government, that is the institution itself, maybe you can set an example.

[lightningbolt]

05:16 PM on 10/25/2011

I don't want to bring down the US government.  I just want to restore the Constitution and remove corporate power so that the people can decide the government's business.  The US government can be a force of good when it is run by the right people.

[Jenna Bean]

02:25 AM on 10/25/2011

if only American leaders could do that without it causing an uproar...they would have already

[FogBelter]

01:49 AM on 10/25/2011

The Chinese government has a country where they have to put suicide nets around factories to prevent distraught workers from jumping to their deaths.

I'd say they have to block "Occupy" on their search engines. Not sure what good it will do for them in the long run though. The People can only take so much.

[jc budmo]

03:40 AM on 10/25/2011

It's also a country that has seen the greatest and quickest wealth creation in history as tens of millions have become middle-class; meanwhile the US has seen the greatest transfer of wealth in financial history with the bailout from working people to the banksters on Wall St.

This is also not lost on Chinese people, for whom a little censorship here and there is a small price to pay for the good times that seem to have no end in sight.

[bdoug25000]

05:22 AM on 10/25/2011

Easy to do with all the slave labor, zero regard for the environment and equal regard to patents and property of others. And dispite all that, for the millions of poor in America there are tens of millions living in poverty in China. Not a socialist, nor capitalist utopia- and not likely to become one either.

[lightningbolt]

06:54 AM on 10/25/2011

A little censorship?  Come on!  There is widespread and massive censorship.  They even have little police cartoons that show up on your screen when you try go read something censored.  It's very big-brotherish.

[jsmills]

01:36 AM on 10/25/2011

China workers unite and have protests against your government and the U.S. government.....You're being exploited by both.....They are 2 colonial type powers using you for cheap labor.....Fight back.....

[WorkhelpWorkhelp]

01:24 AM on 10/25/2011

Too many Chinese folks are toast. Like us.

[Sam025 tang]

12:18 AM on 10/25/2011

共匪害怕了

[QuakerJewish]

11:01 AM on 10/25/2011

Bandits fear.