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
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Office +254 730 911125
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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.

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