“Chinese internet users have seen posts referring to the country’s #MeToo movement disappear from WeChat, Weibo, and other popular social networks in recent weeks. In particular, posts about an alleged decades-old cover-up at Peking University, one of the most prestigious universities in China, seems to have attracted the attention of government censors. Students at the school are calling for faculty to investigate the case of Gao Yan, a college student who committed suicide in 1998 after alleging she was sexually assaulted by a professor who remained on the faculty for years. For embittered activists though, there’s some hope, thanks to the blockchain.”
This tweet from Bloomberg China tech reporter, Lulu Yilun Chen highlights that now evidence of this assault exists on the blockchain, no authority can ever deny its existence. This is a powerful application for Ethereum’s blockchain. As we know, Ethereum was designed to allow people to do just this sort of thing, whilst some applications of Ethereum are questionable at best, this is providing a real platform for change, motivating a worldwide movement. We must consider the implications of this, could this go on to encourage more activists to start using blockchain technology? Moreover, could this inspire more people to start using cryptocurrency? I believe so. This could have a positive impact on the markets, as well as society on the whole. Featured Image Original Source: PixabayThe Peking University petition letter has now been stamped on ethereum so it can never be scraped from the web. Meanwhile posts on the same topic are disappearing from WeChat fast. Quite the symbolic move pic.twitter.com/zVF3utlUnx
— Lulu Yilun Chen (@luluyilun) April 24, 2018