China’s dammed Internet wall is common knowledge — Chinese users are blockaded from looking at Facebook, Google+, Twitter and other sites that their government doesn’t allow. With all that pressure building up, though, the dam seems to have had a small crack, and it led to Obama’s Google+ page.
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Repeated censorship of foreign-owned social networks like Twitter and Facebook by the Chinese government may be a large part of the reason that local Chinese networks are gaining in popularity among the millions of internet users in the country. Along with the recent threat by Google to pull its search from China altogether, there are indicators that Chinese internet users will be isolated from the networks and websites that European and North American users access most.
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