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I went and looked around on the Minecraft map for a while. As a censorship bypassing tool, I think it leaves a little to be desired. The library has a main atri
by aquova 7y ago
I went and looked around on the Minecraft map for a while. As a censorship bypassing tool, I think it leaves a little to be desired. The library has a main atrium discussing censorship levels in each country and how freedoms are being curtailed in each. There are also 6 halls (one for Vietnam, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, as well as one for the Uncensored Library) that actually contain censored documents in those countries, but each only had two or three, both in their native language and in English. There really wasn't much content.
Instead, the library serves more like a digital art exhibit, showcasing some of the struggles around the world. The architecture is really something, I would almost argue it's too grandiose, the main atrium is too large for the game to render at once, even on the furthest render settings, unless you actually stop to let it all pop in for about a minute.
I was impressed by it, and if they continue to add additional documents I think it would really be impactful and useful.
- techslave 7y agoso, just the message itself isn’t impactful and helpful? i’d say it is.
- a1369209993 7y agoNo. No it is not. Impactful and helpful, in the context of censorship, means that it causes censorship to not work. Eg by giving victims access to copies of the censored works.
- ardy42 7y ago> There are also 6 halls (one for Vietnam, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, as well as one for the Uncensored Library) that actually contain censored documents in those countries I'm surprised by the omission of China, because it's probably the poster child for modern day political censorship. Is Minecraft censored there or something?
- chipperyman573 7y agoYes https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China
- wcoenen 7y agoCan you elaborate? The page you link to, does not say anything about censorship.
- Karunamon 7y agoAnytime a game from another country has a Chinese version, you can generally expect changes to include content censorship (blood and skeletons are common), isolated servers run by a Chinese company (NetEase in this case), and so forth. Any Chinese game is de-facto censored compared to the versions released outside of the country.
- stolen_biscuit 7y agoIs there any evidence of that in this case? None of the changes you have said are shown in the link
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- judge2020 7y agohttps://dota2.gamepedia.com/Low_Violence https://dota2.gamepedia.com/Low_Violence https://old.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/49x7m0/chinese_wow_censorship_comparisonlots_of/ https://old.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/49x7m0/chinese_wow_cen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_in_China#Content_control_and_censorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_in_China#Content_c...
- stolen_biscuit 7y agoI'm not talking in general, I mean specifically for Minecraft