Chinese #Metoo Movement Turns to Ethereum to Evade Censorship

Inspired by the “#metoo” movement, students in China are coding messages onto the temper-proof ethereum blockchain to escape Chinese internet censorship.

As Quartz reported on Tuesday, an anonymous address on the ethereum blockchain sent itself a transaction on April 23 holding code that contains the content of a censored open letter in order to permanently store the text in the public domain.

The open letter, written by Yue Xin, a female student from Peking University, described how she was treated by the university after presenting it with a petition to launch a sexual harassment case over an incident alleged to have happened at the university 20 years ago.

The letter has now sparked support from others in China, who are also posting messages on the ethereum blockchain.

Members of at least three universities in the country appear to have coded their support into the blockchain in a bid to dodge censorship  by the Chinese authorities that targets not only the original source,…