A story that can’t be deleted
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.
The investigative piece looked into a government statement that the Shezhen-based Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology had supplied three-month-old babies with inferior vaccines. These inferior vaccines for whooping cough and tetanus were inefficient at boosting the human immune system. Changchun had used these poor quality products to increase its profit margins, rising to become China’s biggest vaccine maker.
In response, many Chinese internet users sounded off on social media, expressing their disgust with the corrupt and inefficient vaccination system. They tried to reblog the story titled “King of Vaccines,” written by an internet user under the pseudonym “Beast,” but any attempts to repost the story didn’t last long before they were deleted as well.
Source/More: Chinese internet users employ the blockchain to share a censored story about vaccines – The Verge
