Friday, July 1, 2011

postheadericon Google+ 'blocked in China'

Great Firewall of China website shows users are not able to access any location within google.com

Google 's new social network, Google +, has apparently blocked in China within a day at the start.

The company registrations after a hot first 24 hours, where the "Crazy" request to join it forced the company to stop to close it to new members shortly.

According to the website Great Firewall of China, which uses a server in China to try to external web sites access, Google users in China are not anywhere in google.com that includes the URL for Google + access plus.google. com.

Another access-checking service, Just Ping, also reports that the plus.google.com URL is inaccessible within China.

The blocking of the Chinese Government, with its 'Great Firewall "- a censorship that blocks a large number of sites outside the Chinese borders on the basis that they' destabilizing" content such as pornography or contain unsuitable views - Games , used the other Western social networks like Facebook and Twitter. In contrast, the Guardian 's website accessible in many parts of China.)

Google 's main URL, google.com, has been blocked in China because the company decided from the mainland in 2010 in protest against what they saw, as inspired by the government to withdraw hacking.

After the Great Firewall is the Chinese version website, google.cn, also blocked, while that of China, Baidu is not sanctioned it.

+ Google is seen as a Google 's answer to Facebook, which has almost 700 users - even though it effectively in China, where people only use the encrypted connections to the outside world are able to join her forbidden.

Vic Gundotra, one of the company 's top engineers who watched the developments closely, posted on Google + early Thursday morning (at about 8:45 on Wednesday evening in Google' Shutdown's Pacific time zone) that "we 've the load mechanism for the night. Insane demand. We must do this carefully, and in a controlled manner. Thanks for all your interest! "

Asks were reopened on Thursday afternoon, but only to a limited extent.

There are no details about how many people have registered members.

China 's government on Friday celebrating an important anniversary of 90 years since the founding of the Communist Party of China, and it has introduced a series of crackdowns on Internet usage and increased censorship.

Earlier this week, Google revealed that it receives a steady stream of requests for private data from developed countries - but that it had no requests to remove content from the Chinese government in the second half of 2010. However, he received 90 requests from China-controlled Hong Kong for useful data, an increase of 80% over the same period in 2009, it happened to 53 of them, a 59% compliance.

Charles Arthur

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