Watch this video clip of the poor receptionist girl working at Google China getting harrassed by a guy, Zola Zhou, (once) billed as “China’s first citizen reporter”. Zola first gained widespread attention for his blog reports on the Chongqing nailhouse. Hungry for more success, he also went to Xiamen to report on demonstrations against Haicang PX. Hell, he even got interviewed by NBC.
In his latest reincarnation, Zola pays Google China a visit to complain about click fraud on the Adsense programme and to ask for his money back. The way he did it though has gotten him lambasted by Chinese netizens who say he’s “crazy about fame” and “worse than Furong Jiejie” (read comments to the video here in Chinese).
In a lengthy post entitled Nobody said media-whoring would be easy, Imagethief, who happens to be a public relations specialist, dishes out some really excellent advice to all would-be media whores citizen reporters like Zola, and even threw in some bonus advice for Google China.
In the meanwhile, Zola’s blog, Zuola.com appears to have been GFW-ed, and so is his Picasa album (which, the last time we checked, consisted mostly of pictures of himself at “troubled spots”). He says on his new blog, Alouz.com:
这是周曙光的国内镜像网站，老子的官方网站被GFW追杀，换一个IP还是被屏蔽了，火大了！有种就明的来打来杀，给老子一个行政处罚通知给我一个痛快，我建立一个国内镜像，我的电话是13467668333，要删除哪篇文章尽管来电话，有什么与事实不符的内容尽管给我一个诽谤罪，别像GOOGLE一样惩罚老子却列一个罪名表让我对号入座！ 我操！没人比我更恨那些拥有不透明权力的机构和组织！操！操！操！
This is Zola Zhou’s mirror website in China. My official blog has been GFW-ed, and it still doesn’t work even after I’ve pointed it at another IP! I’m fuming mad! If you’ve got the guts, come beat me, kill me, or take me to court. I’m establishing a mirror website in China and my number is 13467668333. If there’s anything you’d like to see taken off just call me. If there’s anything untrue in my posts, just sue me for libel. Don’t punish me like Google did. F*ck! Nobody hates those who hide behind unseen powers and organisations more than me! F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!
