Unable to leave their homes for weeks at a time, many of Shanghai’s 25 million residents have been unleashing their frustrations over the city’s Covid-19 lockdown online. Photo: Reuters
Unable to leave their homes for weeks at a time, many of Shanghai’s 25 million residents have been unleashing their frustrations over the city’s Covid-19 lockdown online. Photo: Reuters
China /  Politics

NFTs preserve Shanghai’s Covid-19 lockdown record from China censorship

  • In a cat-and-mouse game with censors, some residents are turning to blockchain where data cannot be erased
  • Hundreds of NFTs are available in world’s largest marketplace OpenSea relating to single video which censors tried to suppress

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Updated: 1:10pm, 31 May, 2022

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Unable to leave their homes for weeks at a time, many of Shanghai’s 25 million residents have been unleashing their frustrations over the city’s Covid-19 lockdown online. Photo: Reuters
Unable to leave their homes for weeks at a time, many of Shanghai’s 25 million residents have been unleashing their frustrations over the city’s Covid-19 lockdown online. Photo: Reuters
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