Hi Wairimu, Thank you for sharing this. This is indeed a new use for blockchain. Freedom of speech is an essential part of human life and in this case it's being used to highlight the issue China is facing. I believe this should be made possible to to every nation where freedom of speech is muzzled and bring freedom to it's citizens. Regards, Wilson Muroki Njino Tel: +254 721 991098 Office +254 730 911125 Email: wnmuroki@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 5:04 PM Wairimu Macharia-Muturu via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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/>*.*
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