A recent vaccine scandal in China was made public by a reporter who purchased a quantity of ether and stored his expose on the ethereum blockchain. China are now taking steps to outlaw foreign VPNs and cyrptocurrencies/blockchains and are attempting to create their own censored versions.
There are two aspects of this question. Technical and ethical. Ethically speaking blockchain design should enable only the trusted information verified by peers. Hence, providing freedom of speech. But technically, this peer verification depends largely on implementation of blockchain network, which is core strength of blockchain. If the network is designed to be manipulated which some governments may do to iron grip on information flow, freedom of speech may not be helped by blockchain.
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