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 removing information that would be directly harmful to another, which the public doesn’t have a right to know. In my job I had to redact student documents that were being used by an outside assessment team. They needed to know what the student studied, but not the students name or social security number, etc. It’s about taking a document which is a mix of public and private information and making it appropriate for public consumption.
Censorship is removing information that the public does have a right to know, but the government doesn’t want them to know.
Redaction involves facts, censorship normally involves ideas.
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