Minecraft fighting for freedom

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billvon

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A little known feature in Minecraft is the area of the game called "the uncensored library." It's a user accessible area that looks like a library, and contains works that have been banned/censored/removed due to a country's lack of free speech. It's a brilliant way to get around much of the censorship in repressive governments around the world.

A US section was recently added to it, to fight against the censorship happening today with the Trump administration. Banned works include:

- Stephen Colbert’s interview with a Senate candidate that was barred from television by the FCC
- a report on sea-level rise that was removed from government websites
- writeups and awards for LGBT US soldiers, also removed from government websites
- a two-volume interactive timeline of the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol
- a rejected cartoon showing Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg bending the knee to Trump, offering up bags of cash

Sad that a children's game is now a bigger proponent of the First Amendment than the president.
 
I read that Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communication Commission, has now threatened the TV networks with censorship if they broadcast what he calls, Trumpily, "hoaxes" about Trump's attack on Iran.

But who decides what is a "hoax"? Brendan Carr and the Shite House, presumably. This would seem to be a handy precedent to further extend political control over the media. So it has now become overt, rather than being done just indirectly through Trump's campaigns of intimidatory lawfare.

Another click on the authoritarian ratchet, in good time for the mid term elections.
 
billvon said:
A little known feature in Minecraft is the area of the game called "the uncensored library." It's a user accessible area that looks like a library,
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How can I access it? (I have Minecraft...)
 
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