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Steve Jobs vs. Occupy Wall Street?
Big news stories have an interesting way of colliding on Twitter—and few collisions have been as intriguing as the one that happened last night, when the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs was announced during one of the largest demonstrations so far for the ongoing protest movement Occupy Wall Street.
On the one hand, Steve Jobs is the CEO of one of the most profitable corporations on the planet, one that employs many overseas workers to make its products. This point was made by Twitter user @VoidDelete:
RIP Steve Jobs?......How about RIP AMERICAN JOBS? #occupywallstreet #ows Apple products are made in China
Some, like @MistrGreen56, saw the attention for Jobs as an example of misplaced priorities:
#iSad ppl care more about steve jobs, who cares nothing for us, than ppl care about #OWS, a movement trying to make everyones future beter
But Jobs was also a creature of the counterculture, as he himself often said, whose company’s most famous slogan is “Think Different.” Many of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters—like Twitter users @saramikaila, @adbridgeforth, and @screwcomforttoo—see him as an inspiration:
“because the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do” -Steve Jobs #OccupyWallStreet
"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish". + Steve Jobs #p2 #ows #WeThePeople
Be like Steve Jobs and help build a future that gives more people tools and a voice. #ows #p2
There have also been plenty of tweets from the anti-Occupy Wall Street crowd, claiming Jobs as one of their own, or mocking the perceived inconsistency of the other side—like this one, from @anticoolness:
To all the #occupywallstreet folks who are sad for Steve Jobs: He wasn't the 99%. He was the 1% you're supposed to take Wall St. back from.
Some people pointed to the all-over-the-place Steve Jobs tweets as further evidence of the inconsistencies—or, at least, wild heterogeneity—of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
But it’s also testament to the complexity of Jobs himself. He did identify with the counterculture. He did “think differently” as a CEO in many ways. He also was an enormously successful businessman. And at least one pro-Occupy Wall Street tweeter (@Barney_Miller) would just like other people to have the same opportunities Jobs had:
Think about how many Steve Jobs are out there with great ideas who can't get a loan today to start the next Apple.#Occupywallstreet
(Further reading: Jonathan Chait on why those at both extremes, right and left, are wrong about Steve Jobs, Apple, and Occupy Wall Street.)
China loves #occupywallstreet "Long Live the Great Wall Street Revolution!"
Patrick WinnOctober 5, 2011 05:43
 "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators occupy a park near Wall Street in New York, October 3, 2011. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
We already know that the North Korean regime is all giddy over the "Occupy Wall Street" protests.
Now some Chinese pundits are showing sympathy for the protesters as well.
The state-owned China Daily's English edition carried an editorial titled "U.S. Media Blackout of Protest is Shameful," which alleges that corporate media refuses to acknowledge the scope and scale of the demonstrations.
A New York-based China Daily editor writes: "Why have those journalists, who made their names covering various protests around the world, suddenly become silent in reporting the mass rally? That clearly does not match their enthusiasm to cover demonstrations in recent months in places such as North Africa and the Middle East."
"I am not sure if they are all left-leaning," the China Daily piece said, "but a schedule I saw did include sessions on the Communist Manifesto and Spanish Revolution."
But this condemnation of media neglect is nothing compared to headlines appearing in Chinese-language media.
A Beijing-based writer for The New Yorker points to articles proclaiming "Long Live the Great Wall Street Revolution!" and another dubbing protesting American youth the "occupy generation."
A published letter of solidarity, signed by Chinese intellectuals and activists, offers this warning to the world's capitalists:
"The eruption of the “Wall Street Revolution” is an historical indicator that the popular democratic revolution that will soon sweep the world is set to begin."
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