Looks like the “Children of the Mao” are once again up to their old tricks. The net-saviest amongst the billion plus in China knew for years that RSS feeds* were the key to getting around the “Great Firewall of China”. Sadly, it looks like China has now severed access to all incoming feeds.

*RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. subter has feeds for both Shots and the monthly issue.

According to the folks over at ArsTechnica - certain feed providers (such as FeedBurner) as well as blogs hosted by BlogSpot (Google) and Wordpress are now being blocked. Also, URLs that contain the words “feeds”, “rss”, and “blog” have been blocked.

Looks like Big Brother is at it again.