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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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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Can it be simplified to roughly, ‘censorship is deleting material for morality reasons, and redaction is hiding information for legal reasons’?

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