Activists Created a 12.5 Million Block Digital Library in 'Minecraft' to Bypass Censorship Laws | Business Insider

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[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

never thought about installing minecraft until today

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Me either. I don't do games.

But I support decentralizing all things and anti-censorship Internet activism.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

A+++

Linked to : https://www.corbettreport.com/is-wikipedia-reliable-questions-for-corbett-056/#comment-73838

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Uncensored Library – The Film (1:57) ~ Reporter ohne Grenzen, 2020-03-11

[–]ManWithABanana 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I went in and checked it out. It's a neat building. The selection of books/articles is......... a bit small. Hope they expand it.

[–]la_cues 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So, the "12.5 million block" number has no bearing on the actual amount of data/books?

[–]ManWithABanana 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Goodness no. Each book would be probably one "block". But the building and grounds I could easily see being 12.5 million blocks.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a great idea. Shared digital worlds could have real libraries, as a backup system to the actual library system.

[–]GreenCappy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I tried it, it's cool but it's only focused on certain countries censorship whole ignoring others. There's Russia and Vietnam, but no China, North Korea or USA. Even tho I know Chinese and obviously North Koreans can't easily play original Minecraft version to play this map, it would still be cool. And Russians that want still can easily accept "censored" materials because of how bad the censorship in Russia is. Also, I'm pretty sure the creators would be banned if some wiki leaks materials of what the CIA does would be on this server.