{"id":122083,"date":"2011-06-29T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=122083"},"modified":"2011-06-29T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T05:25:10","slug":"google-blocked-before-it-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2011\/06\/google-blocked-before-it-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ Blocked Before it Opens? (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s new social-networking site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/technology\/china-is-already-blocking-google\/2011\/06\/29\/AGV42pqH_story.html\"><strong>Google+, which is still in the invitation-only beta phase, has already been blocked by the Great Firewall<\/strong><\/a>. From the Washington Post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.just-ping.com\/index.php?vh=plus.google.com&#038;c=&#038;s=ping%21\">Just Ping<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatfirewallofchina.org\/index.php?siteurl=plus.google.com\">Greatfirewallofchina.org <\/a>website both confirm that <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/\">plus.google.com <\/a>is not accessible from mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>The censoring itself isn\u2019t too surprising; Chinese authorities aren\u2019t too keen on U.S. social networks and block services such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Foursquare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update: Shanghaiist <a href=\"http:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2011\/06\/30\/google_gets_the_gmail_treatment_-_n.php\">reports that their bloggers are able to open Google+ from China<\/a>, just very slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s new social-networking site, Google+, which is still in the invitation-only beta phase, has already been blocked by the Great Firewall. 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The censoring itself isn\u2019t too surprising; Chinese authorities aren\u2019t too keen on U.S. social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,100,6],"tags":[5908,6354,6300,5645],"class_list":["post-122083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-revolution","category-politics","category-sci-tech","tag-google","tag-great-firewall","tag-internet-censorship","tag-social-networking","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google+ Blocked Before it Opens? 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