RSS Feeds Banned by the Chinese Government
Published by Sierra Monica B., on Oct 05 2007, in the categories: News
After starting with the Feedburner feeds and continuing with certain websites like Blogspot and Wordpress blogs, now the Chinese Government has banned all RSS feeds.
Several recent reports showed that the Public Security Bureau from China has blocked the access to all URLs that begin with “rss”, “blog” or “feeds”.
But the smart Chinese people have found a solution anyway.
Some use web-based feed aggregators like NewsGator Online to access the RSS feeds.
After setting the feed aggregator to show the available part of the posts, it works when they click through to read more.
But if it is set to display only a part of the posts and then click to read all, they receive the error message “server stopped responding”.
Some use other methods, like connecting to an SSH outside China, this way having full access to RSS.
Firefox’s gladder extension is another possibility while it is a proxy tool with which people can visit Wikipedia and its related sites, and Google cached pages.
It needs to be mentioned that all these ways are extremely slow.
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4 Comments on “RSS Feeds Banned by the Chinese Government”
Wayne Smallman said on 10/05/2007:
It's going to be pretty hard for the Chinese government to police news feeds like this. It's not like they're a TLD or anything.
As you mention, feeds are quite amorphous objects that can be handled and rendered in very different ways — not specifically as feeds — letting you aggregate stuff server-side...
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Streaming Base said on 10/05/2007:
Chinese government is very restrictive so this is was expected.
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adimoga said on 10/05/2007:
soon they will go back to the stone age..
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Sierra said on 10/05/2007:
Poor Chinese people...
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