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Google+ Unblocked In China; President Obama's Page Flooded With Comments

Posted by timothy on from the bottleneck-opening dept.

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."

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  1. China unblocks Google+ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    China unblocks Google+ Figures no one uses it anyway. Myspace is next to be unblocked.

    1. Re:China unblocks Google+ by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 5, Funny

      If the Chinese completely took down the Great Firewall, many other sites would start to howl in pain. Think how useless lots of corporate feedback pages would become (e.g. on Facebook). Consultants would make a fortune implementing anti-Chinese firewalls all over the place...

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      Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
    2. Re:China unblocks Google+ by PDF · · Score: 5, Funny

      Fortunately, Slashdot lacks Unicode support, so we're already protected.

  2. This is a good thing! by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Funny

    Brazilians use Orkut, Chinese use Google+. Good for them, but great for everybody else -- we just continue not using Orkut or Google+.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  3. Re:Widespread interest by surgen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you trying to say ignorance of foreign issues and jingoism isn't a the best way to form opinions on international matters? You're such a communist.

  4. Re:Totalitarian regimes today... by bit+trollent · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Ukraine is weak.

  5. Re:Widespread interest by Nethemas+the+Great · · Score: 2, Funny

    To a certain extent that's true. However, the US raises it to high art...

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    Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once ... with negative results.
  6. Re:Widespread interest by therealobsideus · · Score: 5, Funny

    You guys are over near Japan, right?