{"id":88167,"date":"2019-02-25T16:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T00:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship"},"modified":"2019-02-25T16:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T00:22:25","slug":"chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship","title":{"rendered":"Chinese internet users turn to the blockchain to fight against government censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to blockchain, internet users have achieved some victories in the fight against China\u2019s strict internet censorship.<\/p>\n<p>A historic moment was made <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.joincivil.com\/uncensored-content-on-ethereum-how-chinese-activists-inspired-civil-f09f095a9e91\">on April 23<\/a>. Peking University\u2019s former student, Yue Xin, had penned a letter detailing the university\u2019s attempts to hide sexual misconduct. The case involved a student, Gao Yan, <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1260191\/metoo-activists-in-china-are-turning-to-the-blockchain-to-dodge-censorship\/\">who committed suicide in 1998 after a professor sexually assaulted and then harassed her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was blocked by Chinese social networking websites, but an anonymous user posted it on the Ethereum blockchain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2019-02-25\/chinese-internet-users-turn-blockchain-fight-against-government-censorship\">https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2019&#45;02&#45;25\/chinese-inter...censorship<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to blockchain, internet users have achieved some victories in the fight against China\u2019s strict internet censorship. A historic moment was made on April 23. Peking University\u2019s former student, Yue Xin, had penned a letter detailing the university\u2019s attempts to hide sexual misconduct. The case involved a student, Gao Yan, who committed suicide in 1998 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,1490,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-government","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}