NFTs Are Put to New Use in China, Countering Censorship During Pandemic

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NFTs Are Put to New Use in China, Countering Censorship During Pandemic
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In most of the world, the market for NFTs is plummeting. In China, nonfungible tokens are on the rise, not as digital-art investments but as a way to strike back at censorship.

Internet users are turning to blockchain technology to prevent content including images, videos and social-media posts from disappearing Content related to the pandemic, like this image of a Shanghai resident banging on pots to protest the city’s lockdown, are often scrubbed by censors.

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