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The Uncensored Library
Reporters Without Borders created a digital safe haven in Minecraft
Attempts at censorship in the U.S. is nothing new, but as of late, new attempts have been silently successful.
I detailed examples of censorship from this week alone in my earlier drafts of this article, but it’s too long for the point of this article. If you’re curious, look up what’s been going on with the hashtags on TikTok and Instagram, U.S. Archivist’s refusal to publish the equal rights amendment (December 2024), Google “mistakenly” erasing presidents from the list of “U.S. presidents in order,” the disappearing pages from the White House website, including the page that showed the U.S. Constitution, and the banning of federal health agencies like the CDC and FDA from disseminating information without a certain someone’s approval.
Because even the U.S. archivist appears to be compromised, citizens on U.S. soil and abroad are searching for ways to find, disseminate, and archive information online and offline.
In researching ways that other countries with strong censorship laws have dealt with this dilemma, I came across The Uncensored Library.
In 2020, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) harnessed the power of one of the world’s most popular video games, Minecraft, to create a digital…
