Reporters Without Borders is using Minecraft to sneak censored news to readers in restrictive countries (via CNBCMakeIt)
Reporters Without Borders enlisted 24 builders, who used 12.5 million virtual Minecraft blocks, to build The Uncensored Library in the popular online computer game.that reaches their citizens by blocking internet access to news and social media sites. But one group is now using the massively popular video game Minecraft to get around those restrictions.
Organizations like Reporters Without Borders, a global nonprofit promoting press freedom, are often forced to find creative loopholes to help the spread of banned news stories and other information to readers in countries that have otherwise restricted access to them.that the organization has turned to the massively popular video game, which is owned by Microsoft and is played by over 145 million people around the world each month.
Reporters Without Borders is using Minecraft's world-building game play to build The Uncensored Library, a virtual library for hosting news articles that have been banned in their countries of origin — places like Vietnam, Russia and Saudi Arabia — or written by journalists who were jailed or killed as a result of their reporting.
A wing of Reporters Without Borders' Uncensored Library in Minecraft dedicated to news articles censored in Vietnam."In many countries around the world, there is no free access to information," Christian Mihr, the managing director of Reporters Without Borders Germany, said in a statement. "Websites are blocked, independent newspapers are banned and the press is controlled by the state. Young people grow up without being able to form their own opinions. By using Minecraft, the world's most popular computer game, as a medium, we give them access to independent information."
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