Some students in China hasturned to bitcoin-based
technology to fight government censorship, this was done in bid to support the
#metoo movement in China.
Gao Yan a formal Chinese
literature student at Peking University was killed in 1998 after being raped by
her professor. Twenty years after her death, her case became a cry of protest
for China’s #MeToo movement, stimulating government demands to do more to
prevent sexual violence and harassment. In response, the censors have repressed
every online discussion. On 9 April, eight university students asked for
official school documents on the case. But even in this case, the reaction of
the authorities was heavy. To get around censorship, the students decided to
use the blockchain protocol.
#MeToo is the
movement against harassment and sexual abuse born of the Harvey Weinstein
scandal in Hollywood. According to a study, cited by the Guardian at the
beginning of the year, 80% of Chinese women were harassed, but very few
complaints. In China #WoYeShi is in the crosshairs of online censorship, which
blocks any content considered dangerous and which threatens to threaten social
stability
TWENTY
YEARS LATER
Yue Xin is one
of the students who asked for the full publication of the investigation into
the case of sexual violence. The accused professor no longer teaches at Beijing
University and denied everything, but this did not stop the group of students
from asking the school to share information about the case. Yue is one of them
and published an open letter online on April 23, explaining that since he and
seven other students petitioned school officials on April 9th, he was
intimidated by the school, claiming that school officials forced to erase all
the information he had on the case, and persuaded his parents to close it at
home indefinitely.
China's women break silence on harassment as #MeToo becomes #WoYeShi https://t.co/2CGeKceuQH— Becky Sue Swanson (@BeckySSwanson) April 4, 2018
IN
AN ETHEREUM TRANSACTION
But the letter
became viral on WeChat by Tencent and Weibo by Sina, before it was erased.
Until the same letter has been secured in a ethereum transaction and,
thanks to the blockchain, the supporters of the cause are assured that it is
never canceled or tampered with.
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