eli5 what is the difference between censorship and redaction? when the government releases files for the public, they redact quite a bit of information. Isn’t that censorship?
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Redaction is when someone chooses (say) to release a document containing sensitive information, but decides to withold that information. Censorship is when someone chooses (say) to release a document containing sensitive information, and decides that some of that information should be made public, but another party steps in and imposes the removal of that information before the document is released. Censorship normally includes an element of information being removed against the wishes or intent of the person who was releasing it.
Simplistically it’s the difference between “We won’t say that” and “We won’t let you say that”. And clearly there’s an overlap at times.
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