Google+ Unblocked In China; President Obama's Page Flooded With Comments 187
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."
Re:Widespread interest (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Widespread interest (Score:5, Insightful)
The US now seems to treat politics like just another reality TV show.
Re:Widespread interest (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.
Totalitarian regimes today... (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.)
Re:Widespread interest (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Widespread interest (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Widespread interest (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Widespread interest (Score:2, Insightful)
There are only 35 (give or take one or two, I can't count) states in America.
Re:Widespread interest (Score:4, Insightful)
Was there another final debate?
After the final debate?
That followed the final debate?
That was really just childish bickering, pointing fingers, and attacks instead of an actual debate?
The Best Way to Rule a Country (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Widespread interest (Score:3, Insightful)
Show me one other country in the world with the word "America" in its name and then you'll get some sympathy.
Re:Widespread interest (Score:4, Insightful)
In fairness, there are a number of eurocrats in Brussels, etc. who don't recognise this either.
DOS (Score:4, Insightful)
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...