Using NewsGator to Defeat China’s Censors

Posted on October 17, 2007
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This was the only thing in this article that made me feel good.

"Web-based feed aggregators such as NewsGator Online reportedly help regain access to RSS feeds."

But as the article points out, China’s censors are highly developed technically and have caught on to RSS. What they will constantly be playing cat-and-mouse with though is the reality that RSS can be used to ship data anywhere so absent of specific language processing techniques the censors it will be difficult to fully lock down domain-based censoring.

At some point American technology companies are going to have to pull their heads out of the sand on this issue, companies like Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, and Cisco are enabling Chinese authorities with the technology to repress speech instead of expanding it, and that is just perverse.

In the end these companies will lose anyways because China ultimately will rely on a stack of technologies developed by Chinese companies that are free from foreign interference.

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