Chinese Censorship V2

Reported by Ars Technica, the Chinese Government has started blocking certain sites like Blogspot and Word press. For "the Great Firewall of China, there are certainly many interpretations of what is and isn't allowed through the country's cyber connection."

" Savvy Internet fans in the people's republic have known for a long time, however, that there have been simple ways to get forbidden information. One of those ways was the magical gift of Real Simple Syndication, or RSS. The Great Firewall can block specific web sites all it wants, but as long as there's an RSS feed, many Chinese surfers can use feeds to access otherwise forbidden information."

The Chinese Government eventually got wise to this and started banning all forms of RSS feeds. Any URL that started with "feeds", "rss", and "blog" are now on the blacklist. Basically with the blanket RSS ban in effect, they have eliminated all, approve and non-approved, site syndication.

This is just like when the "Great Firewall" came in and shut down an entire data center because it was hosting one blog that contained some "non-approved" information.

China - HA. They must be doing something right. We buy so much product from them through their official intermediary - WalMart.