User:Kai Mitko-Perkins/The Uncensored Library

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The Uncensored Library is a Minecraft Server and Map created to circumvent censorship laws in countries without freedom of speech or press. The library houses banned news articles from the five countries ranked low on World Press Freedom Index. Egypt, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam, all contained in separate wings of the library dedicated to each country in Minecraft book items. The project was started by Reporters Without Borders working with advertising company DDB. The Library was designed and built by UK based company BlockWorks and its lead director James Delaney. The Uncensored Library was released on The World Day Against Cyber-Censorship March 12, 2020. It can be accessed through download or through the Reporter's Without Border's Minecraft Server.

Design
The Library of freedom is built in a Neoclassical Architecture Style. The intent of using this style was to mirror a more authoritarian designs while housing censored articles as a form of irony. The project was built by BlockWorks with twenty-four builders from sixteen different countries and contains 12.5 million Minecraft blocks and over 200 books containing the banned reports. BlockWorks utilizes real world architecture study into its designs.

Format
The Egypt, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam are separated into their own separate wings in the Library containing their banned articles in their native language and English. The library also features documents noting current state of freedom of press in over 180 countries. Each section contains memorials for journalists killed for their reports. The Mexico wing holds twelve memorials and a central memorial for Javier Valdez Cárdenas and his report on a pedestal. The Library's Saudi Aribia wing holds reports and memorial of Jamal Khashoggi.

Truth Hegemony
Truth Hegemony is the theme song of the Uncensored Library.

Reception
Reporters without Borders have stated that the Library of freedom Minecraft server has more than 145 million players every month. The library has seen widespread media coverage.

Jamal Khashoggi
Khashoggi's reports are available to read in the uncensored Library Minecraft map to avoid censorship

Javier Valdez Cardenas
A memorial to Cardenas was made in the uncensored library with his work available to be read.