{"id":110328,"date":"2020-03-13T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/359581"},"modified":"2020-03-13T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:08:00","slug":"free-press-advocates-unveil-new-library-of-censored-works-in-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/13\/free-press-advocates-unveil-new-library-of-censored-works-in-minecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Free press advocates unveil new library of censored works &#8212; in Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Reporters Without Borders NGO and its collaborators unveiled <a href=\"https:\/\/uncensoredlibrary.com\/en\">The Uncensored Library<\/a>, a virtual library built in <em>Minecraft<\/em> that&#8217;s stocked with censored works and information on press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a notable use of the venerable block-based building game, one intended to circumvent regional censorship and press suppression by keeping a read-only collection of relevant work accessible on an open <em>Minecraft<\/em> server.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[In countries]&nbsp;where websites, blogs and free press in general are strictly limited, <em>Minecraft <\/em>is still accessible by everyone,&#8221; reads&nbsp;a press release announcing The Uncensored Library&#8217;s debut this week.&nbsp;&#8220;Reporters Without Borders (RSF) used this backdoor to build &#8216;The Uncensored Library&#8217;: A library that is now accessible on an open server for <em>Minecraft <\/em>players around the globe. The library is filled with books, containing articles that were censored in their country of origin. These articles are now available again within <em>Minecraft <\/em>\u2013 hidden from government surveillance technology inside a computer game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Relevant reports on press freedom, as well as censored works from journalists who have been suppressed, jailed, exiled, or killed&nbsp;in five different countries are&nbsp;currently available to read (in English and their original language) in The Uncensored Library, with more to come in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The Library itself was built by 24 people at&nbsp;<em>Minecraft&nbsp;<\/em>design studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockworks.uk\/the-uncensored-library\">Blockworks<\/a>, working in concert with Reporters Without Borders as well as digital production and advertising agencies to unveil it the same week as yesterday&#8217;s World Day Against Cyber Censorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Reporters Without Borders NGO and its collaborators unveiled The Uncensored Library, a virtual library built in Minecraft that&#8217;s stocked with censored works and information on press freedom. It&#8217;s a notable use of the venerable block-based building game, one intended to circumvent regional censorship and press suppression by keeping a read-only collection of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}