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As some of you are no doubt aware, China has blocked access to all
Blogspot weblogs. Users can post, but they can't see whether what
they've written has gone through. Likewise, others from China can't
read their weblogs.

Well, that gave me an idea. What if those users from China were set
up with full RSS feeds? Those feeds could then be added to RSS
aggregation websites, thereby creating numerous online archives of
these weblogs.

It occurs to me that RSS could become a very important tool to route
around Internet censorship -- a great, unexpected benefit.

Now, if only we had those feeds...




Sat Jan 11, 2003 11:53 am

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As some of you are no doubt aware, China has blocked access to all Blogspot weblogs. Users can post, but they can't see whether what they've written has gone...
markkraft <markkraft@...
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Jan 11, 2003
11:53 am

Thanks for the alert Mark. There's a lot of info on the Web about this, I'm accumulating pointers on scripting.com. Perhaps RSS feeds can help. It would be a...
Dave Winer
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Jan 11, 2003
2:50 pm

... this, I'm ... It would ... render RSS as ... blocked as ... can't ... set ... route ... If the RSS feed was within the same IP block, the aggregators would...
Shelley Powers <shell...
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Jan 11, 2003
3:17 pm

... My idea was really more about using RSS -> HTML sites (or tools) on servers that aren't blocked. The sites/tools would periodically check the feeds and...
markkraft <markkraft@...
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Jan 11, 2003
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... would ... they ... unless ... check ... A better approach would be the use of proxies. See more on this at http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/000816.htm....
Shelley Powers <shell...
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Jan 11, 2003
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One good alternative, and why I've campaigned against heavy dependence on HTTP, is to use gnutella and the other freespace p2p distribution networks. Or, ...
Bill Kearney
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Jan 11, 2003
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