Press Freedom Group Stores Censored Articles In Minecraft Library

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Minecraft is a vastly popular video sport, with more than 170 million copies sold around the world



A digital library housing censored articles from world wide has been created inside the massively widespread video sport Minecraft by press freedom group Reporters With out Borders (RSF).



Minecraft, with its signature pixelated graphics, allows gamers to build entire universes from Lego-like digital blocks, both alone or with others on-line. Minecraft pokemon servers



RSF stated it had put work by banned, exiled or killed journalists in 5 countries -- Egypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Vietnam -- on an open server, making it out there for gamers to view regardless of local censorship laws.



"In these countries, where web sites, blogs and free press on the whole are strictly restricted, Minecraft continues to be accessible by everybody," the group mentioned in a press launch.



"These articles at the moment are available once more within Minecraft, hidden from government surveillance technology inside a pc sport. Minecraft pokemon servers The books can be learn by everybody on the server, but their content cannot be modified," it mentioned.



In Might final year, Minecraft mentioned 176 million copies of the game have been sold since its launch a decade in the past.



The venture, introduced on Thursday to mark the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, is called the "Uncensored Library" and takes the type of a large neoclassical-type building in the game.



RSF mentioned the library was rising, with more texts being added each in English and their unique language.



Already obtainable in the sport are articles by slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and from Egyptian on-line newspaper Mada Masr, which has been blocked in the North African country since 2017.