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China Blocking All RSS Feeds

by Terrence O'Brien on October 5, 2007 at 12:29 PM

China Blocking All RSS Feeds
Ok, this has simply gone too far. It's one thing to block access to certain sites or even kill new Internet cafes, but to prevent an entire nation of people from using a technology as wonderful as RSS is just plain cruel.

Today, the Chinese government enacted a blanket ban on RSS feeds. We can only assume that this is because RSS feeds are quicker and easier to update. They can also be updated more often, making them much harder to censor than regular web site content.

The iron fist of oppression can only win for so long, however. Resourceful users have several workarounds at their disposal like a Firefox (a popular web browser) extension Gladder and the anonymous web browsing tool Tor.

All we know is that if someone took away our RSS, we'd be mighty pissed off.

From TechCrunch

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Tags: censorship, china, firewall, government, great firewall, GreatFirewall, rss

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