Unintended Consequences Of Google Reader Shutdown: Losing Key Tool To Get Around Censored Internet In Iran & China
from the that's-unfortunate dept
Last night, after posting the story about Google Reader being shut down, I received an email from someone in China, telling me that it was an even bigger deal for him, because "even with a VPN it can be very difficult to access outside news sites," but that the Great Firewall doesn't block Google Reader -- so that's his one way of reading outside news. And today, European MEP Marietje Schaake tweeted nearly the same thing about Iran. Apparently, neither country blocks Google Reader, and thus people in both countries rely on it as a tool to get around censorship. Of course, Google need not keep Reader running just for that reason, but it does highlight just how important Google Reader is to some people. And, yes, there are other RSS readers out there, but as people are quickly discovering, they tend to be much more limited (and, one imagines, more likely to be blocked in those countries).
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http://tt-rss.org/
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Think before you act!
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I do the same thing.
I know, I know, "first world problems"....
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Re: I do the same thing.
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Here's another possible unintended consequence
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That's awesome
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Actually...
Actually I'd say that they are LESS likely to be blocked. Google (Reader) is a HUGE target. If people using Google Reader start using different replacements, the result would be a big number of alternatives, which would be harder to keep up with for the censorship-happy morons.
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Do no evil!
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RSS
Censorship is the goal here PEOPLE WAKE UP. These thing are happening in the UNITES STATES not just China.Facebook Censors.youtube censors, and many web sites are being filtered some how,but they can't filter RSS. THe option to use RSS on facebook pages other than your own seems to have vanished, You can use SMS for them but RSS appears to be gone
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Re: RSS
How do you figure this? If someone can filter HTML, I see no reason why they couldn't filter XML. More likely they just didn't bother in those particular cases you saw. After all, if "they" (I don't even know who you're talking about) filtered both HTML and RSS, you wouldn't know about it, would you?
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Stories movies pitchers
Iran she is abusing agaings peoples right i need to stop this accion
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