Press Freedom Group Stores Censored Articles In Minecraft Library

Minecraft is a hugely popular video sport, with more than 170 million copies offered around the globe

A virtual library housing censored articles from world wide has been created within the massively in style video game Minecraft by press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Minecraft, with its signature pixelated graphics, allows gamers to build complete universes from Lego-like digital blocks, either alone or with others online.

RSF said it had put work by banned, exiled or killed journalists in five international locations -- Egypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Vietnam -- on an open server, making it obtainable for gamers to view despite local censorship legal guidelines.

"In these international locations, the place websites, blogs and free press on the whole are strictly limited, Minecraft continues to be accessible by everyone," the group stated in a press launch.

"These articles at the moment are accessible again within Minecraft, hidden from government surveillance expertise inside a pc recreation. The books could be learn by everybody on the server, but their content cannot be changed," it said.

In May last yr, Minecraft mentioned 176 million copies of the game have been sold since its launch a decade in the past.

The undertaking, introduced on Thursday to mark the World Day In opposition to Cyber Censorship, is called the "Uncensored Library" and takes the type of a big neoclassical-fashion constructing in the sport. Minecraft skyblock servers

RSF stated the library was rising, with extra texts being added each in English and their original language.

Already available in the game are articles by slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and from Egyptian online newspaper Mada Masr, which has been blocked in the North African nation since 2017.

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