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+

[Anonymous Coward]

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

This is a good thing!

[larry bagina]

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

Re:Widespread interest

[surgen]

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.

Re:Totalitarian regimes today...

[bit trollent]

The Ukraine is weak. [youtube.com]

Re:Widespread interest

[Nethemas the Great]

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

Re:China unblocks Google+

[AliasMarlowe]

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...

Re:Widespread interest

[therealobsideus]

You guys are over near Japan, right?

Re:China unblocks Google+

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