China Blocking All RSS Feeds

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Oct 5th 2007 at 12:29PM

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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LAYCE @ Jan 1st 2008 1:42AM

Certainly looks like China is preparing for the war in Iran when Bush invades. Closing down communication with bloggers would be a beginning. HOLY **** here we go again!

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jim @ Jan 25th 2008 2:50PM

Lord I'm glad that they can do that. Free speech is what you make of it and as the media brodcast more petefiles or there are more now is a question to be answered. It's is sad we as Americans can't comunicate daily for the fear that someone is wacko, wierdo, or a petefile or serial murdrer.!

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