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That doesn't make any sense. All of his posts that people see are posted to public.

Posting to your circles is the lists that you have created, he's not curating lists of >1million people. There isn't any way to limit the visibility of a post just to people who are following you on google+

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you are right. an anonymous browser tab could access the post. my g+ logged in browser tab couldn't. means: r.s. blocked me. i'm fine with it. i remember i once posted a lengthly comment (with lots of numbers, figures using an advanced statistic methodology called arithmetic) on one of his posts.

so much for googles open web approach: "public" != publicly available if you are logged in to google+

http://googleplus.wonderhowto.com/blog/new-google-12-tips-ma...

Item 2 there claims blockers can view public posts, which seems the intended behavior.

then robert must be a superuser && superblocker (or it's a bug, i doubt it, but also i do not care)

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