[kictanet] An example of blockchain being used for activism in China

Thu Jul 26 17:02:23 EAT 2018

 Chinese internet users employ blockchain to share a censored news article

Chinese netizens have turned to blockchain to share a censored news story
about faulty vaccines given to small babies. Their efforts to repost an
investigative piece about a large vaccine maker were largely thwarted by
internet monitors, but by sticking the story within the metadata of a
cryptocurrency transaction, netizens have been able to outsmart the
censors, as first spotted by *TechNode*
<https://technode.com/2018/07/23/vaccine-scandal-blockchain/>*.*

*See full article:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17607690/chinese-internet-users-blockchain-share-censored-news-article-vaccines
<https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17607690/chinese-internet-users-blockchain-share-censored-news-article-vaccines>
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