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by Macross8299 2556 days ago
Hate to be "that guy", but public blockchain technologies are another strong tool that people have for resisting censorship [0]. It's much, much harder to nullroute blockchain traffic as opposed to nullrouting a website with information you want to censor. It's also very clear that the CCP is afraid of such technologies [1]

The rub is of course, this censorship-resistance being predicated on the consensus mechanism of a blockchain not being concentrated in one country.

[0]: https://theconversation.com/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-t...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-blockchain/china-im...