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]
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