The Uncensored Library

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In a videogame called Minecraft, 24 people create a building called " The Uncensored Library "

This is really fascinating and I think a useful thing with technology. Moreover it's a piece of art ! I don't know what kind of book there might be, or if people from the cointelpro are in it, but it was mainly the idea that I wanted to highlight and share.

https://uncensoredlibrary.com/en

This Virtual Library in Minecraft Gives a Voice to Censored Journalists
Download the map, boot up Minecraft — and avoid the digital censorship of repressive governments.

One of our most ambitious projects to date, The Uncensored Library is a virtual library, built inside of Minecraft to overcome censorship. In countries without press freedom, where websites are blocked, Minecraft is still accessible. We used this loophole to build The Uncensored Library. The library is filled with books, containing articles that were censored in their country of origin. Through this project, censored articles become uncensored books in Minecraft.

This virtual library in Minecraft gives a voice to censored journalists

As governments around the globe crack down on journalistic freedom and censor their national press, Reporters Without Borders is working to deliver uncensored news to the public through an unlikely channel: an enormous library housed inside the popular block-building video game Minecraft.

Even in the most restrictive countries where news is censored across the web — like China’s crackdown on the spread of information surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic — citizens can now receive their news by loading Minecraft and flipping through the virtual bookshelves of The Uncensored Library.

“Inside, you can find articles and information about the journalists that are being censored in their own countries,” said Robert-Jan Blonk, senior interactive producer at production company MediaMonks, which helped build the library, in an interview with Fast Company. “

We share these stories through the books that live in that library, and people can just openly read them, because even in the countries… where these journalists are from, you’re able to play Minecraft.”
The massive digital library — which contains more than 12.5 million Minecraft blocks, and took 24 builders from 16 different countries over 250 hours to design and build — houses real articles written by five journalists from censored countries including Russia, Mexico, Egypt, Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia, providing unblocked news to readers through a savvy internet loophole.

Even if government censors try to hack and delete the library, multiple other server hosts in other countries are prepared to take over and protect it, according to Fast Company.