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<h1 class="gmail-c-page-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:inherit;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;vertical-align:inherit;font-family:adelle-sans,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 0.6rem;padding:0.6rem 0px 0px;font-weight:600;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Chinese internet users employ blockchain to share a censored news article</h1>

</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:300;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:300;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">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<span> </span></span><a href="https://technode.com/2018/07/23/vaccine-scandal-blockchain/" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:inherit;vertical-align:inherit;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(229,18,125);border-bottom:1px solid;font-weight:300"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:inherit;vertical-align:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:italic;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px">TechNode</em></a><em style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:inherit;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;vertical-align:inherit;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:italic;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-weight:300">.</em></div><div><em style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:inherit;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;vertical-align:inherit;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:italic;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-weight:300"><br></em></div><div><em style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:inherit;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;vertical-align:inherit;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:italic;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-weight:300">See full article: 
<a href="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</a>

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