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

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

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 26, 2012 @06:35AM 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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China unblocks Google+ by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-26 06:40 · 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 · 2012-02-26 07:46 · 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 · 2012-02-26 10:04 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Fortunately, Slashdot lacks Unicode support, so we're already protected.
Widespread interest by sdw · 2012-02-26 06:44 · Score: 5, Informative

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.

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1. Re:Widespread interest by Kenja · 2012-02-26 06:47 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  What's more interesting is how little interest we have in our politics. At least, little interest in finding out for ourselves what's going on rather then blindly following our parties marching orders.
  
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  "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
2. Re:Widespread interest by Nerdfest · 2012-02-26 06:54 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  The US now seems to treat politics like just another reality TV show.
3. Re:Widespread interest by surgen · 2012-02-26 06:54 · 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:Widespread interest by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2012-02-26 06:58 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  What's even more interesting, is how little interest our politicians have in us.
  As opposed to their own careers and their paymasters.
  
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  Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
5. Re:Widespread interest by apt142 · 2012-02-26 07:02 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  I blame this on only having two political parties. Since each party only really has one competitor, it boils down to us versus them rhetoric.
  With a viable third or fourth party, I think we'd see less "that party wants to eat your children" attacks and more stands on what they believe in. Because it's much harder to go on the attack against two or three opponents, the merits of a particular stance would have to take center stage or least get out of the back alley behind the concert where it's drinking it's cheap whiskey and crying itself to sleep.
  But, for that to happen we'd need to have less of a winner takes all approach to our election system.
  
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6. Re:Widespread interest by msobkow · 2012-02-26 07:33 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  If your government and corporations didn't interfere with the rest of the world's nations, believe me, we wouldn't give a shit about American politics.
  
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  I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
7. Re:Widespread interest by Kenja · 2012-02-26 07:43 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  No, we care who wins reality TV shows. More people vote for American Idol then for their representatives.
  
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  "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
8. Re:Widespread interest by therealobsideus · 2012-02-26 08:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You guys are over near Japan, right?
9. Re:Widespread interest by drawfour · 2012-02-26 08:34 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  It's called a run-off election. In most countries that have multiple parties, unless one candidate already got an absolute majority, there is a second election between the top two candidates, so that someone has to win by an absolute majority.
  
  It could easily be extended to more rounds, where the least popular candidate is eliminated in each voting round until there is an absolute majority for one candidate, but it's usually simpler to just take the top 2 winners and have one more election between them.
10. Re:Widespread interest by alonsoac · 2012-02-26 09:14 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Part of this is because of the influence the U.S. has on our countries. I guess we need to keep an eye always looking at you to know if you are planning to sign a free trade agreement with us, change the amount of monetary aid you send our way, pass some law that makes us outlaws, try to change our style of government or just bomb us. You have the power to change our lives maybe more than even we do.
500 is a lame limit by gl4ss · 2012-02-26 06:49 · Score: 5, Interesting

(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.

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Not surprised. by pushing-robot · 2012-02-26 06:51 · Score: 4, Informative

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.

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How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Totalitarian regimes today... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-26 06:58 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.)