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Google+ Unblocked In China; President Obama's Page Flooded With Comments
An anonymous reader writes "Google+ has recently been unblocked in China and Chinese netizens have found their way to President Obama's G+ page. The result is that topic after topic has hit the limit of 500 comments, most of them in Chinese. Some express political views, but many are just everyday banter or showing off."
China unblocks Google+ Figures no one uses it anyway. Myspace is next to be unblocked.
Interesting how much of the world is interested in our politics.
Several years ago, I was walking around Porvoo, Finland, taking pictures. I talked to a few teenagers doing skateboard tricks. In their perfect English, they were very curious how we could have elected Bush II twice. It's all they wanted to talk about.
Stephen D. Williams
Apparently a commenter added that Obama could, and should, be a member of the communist party. It would be fun to see fox news take that and run with it.
(it's per post though).
pretty nice way of "occopying" something though. one comment explaining something..
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.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Brazilians use Orkut, Chinese use Google+. Good for them, but great for everybody else -- we just continue not using Orkut or Google+.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
I seem to recall plenty of people milling about when the Berlin wall came down. When you give people access to something formerly restricted, plenty of people will show up just to say they were there.
The Internet will be an interesting place on the day the "Great Firewall" finally gets shut down for good.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Whenever the topic of social media comes up, even when it's about Facebook or Google+, I immediately think about Diaspora.
Diaspora is one of the most spectacular open source failures to have ever happened. In fact, I think it's as close as the open source community has ever gotten to a so-called "perfect storm" of failure.
It was built on the weakest foundation possible: a foundation of fads. Its very purpose is a fad (social media), and its architecture is a fad (peer-to-peer networking), and it was implemented using a fad technology (Ruby on Rails).
The implementation itself was rife with security holes of all sorts. This isn't surprising, though, considering that Ruby on Rails was used. Rails "developers" aren't exactly known for caring about performance, reliability, and security. They're often all about cranking out one web app after another, to take advantage of every new buzzword that is coined.
The complete lack of adoption by anyone is extremely laughable, especially given the huge amount of hype and media attention that Diaspora got. Never before have we seen an open source software project get that much hype, but fail so miserably.
I feel solidarity with these chinese people who wrote to Obama just to say "we need freedom"... (This theme is also relevant to me as I was born in another totalitarian regime, the soviet one, a year before it broke; now we still have to build our country and resurrect its culture, persisting against all the pro-soviet-russian forces (i'm from Ukraine.)
Robert Byrd, as a leader ( maybe former ) of the KKK might have a problem with that.
How violent you are... You buy the iPhones and all kinds of stuff built there under this totalitarian regime, but you still allow yourself to write that... And you don't even think that forwarding the IP adresses may cost someone his life.
True. For the most part, the KKK was founded and run by Democrats.
Yes, the Democrats were much different than what they are now, but it is funny to hear people pointing to the Republicans as the ones who would join the KKK. In the old days, it would be the Republicans calling out the Federal troops to put down the KKK. How times change.
I thought the whole point was the Repubs and Dems changed party lines back around the turn of the century and it was only in like the 60s-70s that they turned into the modern Left/Right parties that everybody either roots or loathes.
Santorum should join KKK and see what happens when they fid out he is a mormon.What other impossibilities are out there
Santorum isn't Mormon that's why it's an impossibility. I've never seen so much ignorance not posted as AC. You've, by your comment ratified the above about how little we know of our politicians.
G+ Xi Fa Choi!
That's what the Democrats would like you to believe; the reality is, a person who lives cradle to grave on government largesse does not have a multiparty vote -- they have only one option to keep their livelihood -- and that is the Democrat party that keeps that largess flowing. It is not a 'choice' situation, no more than it was a choice situation 100 years ago.
Sorry, he was Roman Catholic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum#Catholic_Online_article_regarding_sexual_abuse_incidents).
But he acts a bit goofy. So I misjudged him. It is hard to keep up with all these Palin-like oddballs.
Somehow, I imagined about 3,000 posts telling Obama where he can get "cheapest WoW goldz and Diablo III beta invites with special pet!" and lots of replies like "ni hao" and such.
I was very disappointed in not seeing those.
...dont know where ya getting your news but i am in china and still cant go to G+
I'm far more interested in why G+ has been unblocked, while FB/Twitter/etc. are still firewalled. Did the Chinese gov't realize every post having a real / potentially verified name attached is more convenient than the site being inaccessible?
Caveat Emptor is not a business model.
The result is that topic after topic has hit the limit of 500 comments, most of them in Chinese.
They have other American Presidents who were and remain quite willing (some with unseemly eagerness) to put the interests of China's people far ahead of the American people's.
Of course, some few real people in America did benefit... as did some corporate "people", too...
Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
Force choices onto the electorate and make those choices bad. Many will quickly grow cynical and weary, finally giving up on the process. That leaves the few to rule, using the 'elected leaders' as front men who can easily be replaced due to their lack of credibility. Of course, that would never happen here.
Ah... those were nice days... when I got only 500 mails in Chinese.. HTML was new back then...
Interesting. Half a billion people exercising free speech is indistinguishable from a denial-of-service attack.
Our society and the way we structure our conversations, both on the Net and off it, aren't really equipped to deal with the problem of billions of people trying to have a conversation in the same room. We need a new way to think about mass communication in a way that doesn't cause information overload. I wonder if self-moderating systems like Slashcode are part of the answer...
What I find disturbing is how much money and effort is put into this 'race' to the top. If half that money or energy was put into actually making things better, the country would be in much better order. What ever happened to people doing good things without doing so in the only way that ensures THEY get credit. What we need are more "do-gooders" and less "talkers-about-doing-good".
Never say never. Ah!! I did it again!
That's mainly because the United States export mainly bad things these days. The U.S. repeals the Glass–Steagall Act, their banks flourish, hey let's also deregulate our banks. The U.S. has a huge derivatives market, let's also have a huge derivatives market. The U.S. has a low wage sector where people have to work three jobs to get by, let's also have a low wage sector. The U.S. would like to invade Afghanistan, let's also invade other countries. The U.S. has terrible imaginary property laws, let's also have terrible imaginary property laws. The United States have a very costly health care system that provides poor service, but it's very privatized so a few make a fortune, so let's also privatize our health care system. The U.S. privatized their prison system and now has the highest incarceration per capita rate in the world, let's also privatize our prison system. The U.S. abolished the evil death tax, let's also allow excessively wealthy families keep all their fortunes over generations. Students in the U.S. have to run up huge debts, let's also introduce monetary barriers in our education system.
Some people in the United States have figured out how to get people to constantly vote against their own interest, which is not all that difficult in a country where the people love to hate and fear their government, making it the ideal place to experiment how to sell bad ideas, and once that's figured out the things learned in the U.S. are applied to other "Western" countries, where there is more of a consensus to cooperate, where people prefer to like their governments, where businesses cooperate with the unions to find the best solutions, where banks rather finance investments than speculate, and so on. The easy way to scare a German for instance is to talk about bringing "Amerikanische Verhältnisse" (conditions as they are in the United States) to Germany. We watch your politics and media as a matter of survival, so we can do something about climate science denial to prevent it becoming a problem here. Back in secondary education we would watch documentaries showing how spin-doctoring works in the United States to prepare us for when the trend reaches us. We regulate our media and make sure they self-regulate properly so we don't get some FOX News equivalent here, thanks to us knowing about FOX News.
The irony is quite funny, the political right loves competition, and in better times we had competing political systems. When the Soviet Union became less scary, the notion that we have to make sure "our" system is better vanished, and some people take advantage of that. If you had a soviet leader visiting the United States today, seeing the bridges in the country crumble while high wage earners make one million times as much as low wage earners per hour, they would probably not know whether they should laugh or cry. If the people in the United States would stop being crazy, or at least keep their bad ideas at home, we'd pay less attention.
They most certainly must have reached an agreement with the Government to filter out stuff. The same thing they agreed to do when they implented google search in China before bowing out because of " Humanitarian reasons" When actually the only left because of hack attempts. They only reached this to boost the numbers using Google + to making more money for adds. " Don't Be Evil, My ASS "
Probably just telling him how happy they are for shipping all of the jobs over there, taking the economy and how to continue to subvert the U.S. constitution.
I just checked. It still does not work. Part of the problem is that Google appears to only have a small allocation in P.R. China. As such most attempts to use it time out.
Back to the point, I am still unable to access it.
It is the best reality TV show I've ever seen. Would love to see Santorum or Gingritch win the nomination just for the popcorn value. Ron Paul would provoke an even bigger farce, since the guy actually believes in something, and it's a different planet from the status quo. What more entertainment could you possibly hope for?
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
The Jews right in our homeland is more dangerous the the Chinese. Period.
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I cannot access the google plus in China right now!
The Great Firewall is easy to circumvent. Been there done that. They just make it illegal to keep people from talking about what they read when bipassing the firewall. Essentially, making it illegal to visit sites makes an open conversation about those sites illegal, thus keeping everyone quiet and accomplishing the great firewall's purpose.
"Santorum should join KKK and see what happens when they fid out he is a mormon."
He is not a mormon. Or maybe you meant a moron?