China now blocks RSS Feeds

China’s censorship policy on internet isn’t new to this world. China has been blocking websites, so that the ideas of liberty can be restricted. Wise citizens of China had been bypassing this censorship by making use of RSS feeds which are offered on almost all blogs and websites today.

To deal with this threat, The Great Firewall of China has started blocking any URL that starts with “feeds,” “rss,” and “blog”. It makes countless websites and pretty much all feeds which have syndicated with FeedBurner inaccessible.

Some Chinese users are reporting success with Newsgator, but now that it’s under Chinese government eyeball, I don’t think it will stay unbanned for long. Proxies and other anonymizer like Tor are the only hope for the ill-fated citizens of China.

[Via: Arstechnica]

This post was published by on October 8, 2007

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  • http://www.folding-tables-chairs.com/ Folding chairs

    I really hate the fact that some countries try to suppress the idea of liberty of expression

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    I dont understand these policies of China. They have blocked literally all websites.

  • http://www.undergroundattraction.com ScottUA

    Wow…that stinks. I have a couple of list subscribers from China who can’t access any of the PDFs or links that I send them. I wish I could help them, but there’s nothing I can do when an entire government is censoring things.

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  • http://indyankk.blogspot.com indyank

    this is ridiculous…china wants to be an IT power but their government cuts their people from the world.Chinese are no better than some islamic states…

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  • http://www.faqfc.com faqfc

    they blocked ALL my sites

    they even block my school website! its an .edu domain

    *cluesless*

  • http://ronaldmojica.com/ live outside the box

    why they are doing this… whats the point of CHina… WOW… waht a policy

  • http://techroach.com/ Sreejith

    I think India has more possibility in being an IT power since here, problems like this are scarce and freedom of speech is more. Provided that, India is ahead of China in outsourcing and all.