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p>It began as a game in a community forum and then became the top-selling video game ever However, now Minecraft is being used for something its creator could not ever have imagined.

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p>The hub of free speech has taken on the legendary game, which consisted of putting Lego-like blocks with more than 145,000,000 players each month, and turned into a symbol.

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p>To host articles written by journalists that were censored online The virtual library was meticulously designed.

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p>The work of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist killed by Saudi agents in the year 2018 can be found among the many books available at the library.

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p>Minecraft has refused to comment.

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p>The project was created by the non-profit organisation Reporters Without Borders, which is dedicated to defending the freedom of information worldwide The Minecraft library itself was built by design studio Blockworks.

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p>Christian Mihr, the executive director of Reporters Without Borders Germany, said that Minecraft was a good project because he doesn't believe it poses a threat to governments that control their media.

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p>"We chose Minecraft because of its global reach," he said. "It is accessible in every country. The game is not censored as other games suspected to be political.

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p>"There are large communities in all the countries featured, that's why it was suggested that it is a loophole to censorship."

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p>He said the authors were chosen to represent countries in which press was censored, so that people from these communities could access their work.

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p>He clarified, however, that permissions needed to be sought prior to publishing in libraries.

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p>"We did not put any information into the library without the permission of the authors involved - if they're still alive.

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p>"In the case of Jamal Khashoggi we talked to family members - in regard of those who have passed away, and the safety their families."

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p>Nick Feamster, Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, told the BBC that the library could be effective in beating censors, but he was concerned about how governments might react.

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p>He said that it was an interesting idea but there were still issues. https://gameaff.com/ The government will be aware of this - the articles are going across the internet. It's not going to be impervious to an armed adversary.

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p>He explained that the strength of the library was due to the use of Entanglement which is the mixing of the censored material and the video game in the eyes of the censors.

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p>"By linking these two things you force them to share content," he said. "You can't censor one without the other."

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p>Helmi Noman who is a Research Associate at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society He said that he believed the library would have a small audience.

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p>"The censored content is dynamic, diverse and distributed," he said, adding that in his research "the users prefer methods that don't pre-select and separate content from certain online spaces.

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p>"Any approach that doesn't create an unhindered and secure browsing experience of the entire web as well as social media, direct messaging apps will likely have limited success."

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p>Due to the sheer number of players trying to login simultaneously, the server could not be accessed frequently. Despite the limitation on simultaneous users, the server has been visited by 3,889 people from 75 different countries. It has also been downloaded more than 7,000 times.

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p>After two hours of trying the BBC was able to visit the library's virtual location and ask its patrons what they thought about it.

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p>SoulfulGenie stated that they believed "it requires more books as well as a new section on North Korea" and another user called it "ingenious in many ways" and added that, as the library can be downloaded and downloaded by other users, "it is easy to duplicate and, consequently, difficult to kill".

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p>Meanwhile, other players focused on the design of the library The library's appearance was the focus, with ReduxPL commenting that it "looks amazing indeed".

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p>The design of the library by Blockworks was no small feat, taking a team of 24 people from 16 different countries for 250 hours to build.

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p>James Delaney, Managing Director of the design firm, told the BBC that the company's goal was to create a classic design that was "on the edge of fantasy".

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p>He said it was feasible as a building, but is over the limit of what is possible.

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p>"We went for a design that is in the neoclassical style. It's very like the British Museum or New York's public libraries.

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p>He stated that Minecraft was improvisational in its fundamentals, which means that creators were not restricted to following a specific design.

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p>"With many people working on the same project," he said, "people observe each other's work and must react in real time. This is a highly reactive method of working, and that changes the look.

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