The working link
is:
https://plus.google.com/113210431006401244170/posts/8Eiba
dk2ewL
The "broken" link
is:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/113210431006401244170/posts/8
Eibadk2ewLL
There are two differences - the "/u/0" in the
middle, and the extra "L" at the end of the URL. If I remove the extra "L" from
the end of the "broken" link, it works fine. So it appears that the "/u/0" in
the middle gets ignored (or re-written out by the web server). It appears as if
you somehow pasted an extra "L" on the end of the URL, and there's no "walled
garden" effect going on here. I don't have a Google+ account, and I had no
problems seeing the story once I erased the extra "L" from the "broken" link.
The URL looks like it's in the format of
"domain/account-number/posts/post-number". The "post-number" looks like it's a
hash, so it probably has a fixed length. This looks like a simple case of a
careless copy-paste from the URL bar.
(Note: The Groklaw software
inserts extra spaces to break up long strings, so the URLs above will have
spaces in them which don't belong. For anyone who isn't aware of this sort of
thing, this is normal practice for most comment systems to keep trolls from
deliberately mangling the page layout with long strings.)
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