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The social networking website Google Plus is usually blocked in China, but early last week it suddenly became accessible. Since then, a huge number of Chinese Web users have visited the page and left messages--on the profile page of US President Barack Obama.
It's believed to be a technical mistake by Chinese censors or their software. But it's still not fully clear why Google Plus became available, or how long it will last before being censored again by Chinese authorities. Yet what has become clear is that a number of the Chinese users now able to access the site are keen to use it to express their own political points of view.
They've accomplished this, largely, by flooding to US President Obama's page on the site and leaving thousands of comments.
Some of those leaving messages called the phenomenon "Occupy Obama"--seemingly a partially joking reference to the Occupy Wall Street protests of last autumn. Yet the tone of this digital "movement" seems quite different.
Although some Chinese web users voiced critiques of the US, many simply took the opportunity to talk about their dissatisfaction with the Chinese Communist regime, or their views on politics in general.
A commenter named Zhang Mian said: "Mr. President, we want American freedom."
Another, posting under the name Wenbin Shang from Shanghai, said "We have no chance to occupy our President Hu...He hates internet and has no account on any sns website, so we can just occupy Obama, forgive us."
