Why do we redact documents?

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Like, I know we redact classified or secret information from docs, I get *why* you redact them, but like you see those sheets of paper that are all black lines so why bother creating them in the first place if thier totally unreadable?

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I can’t find it now, but Dave Barry once wrote a column about the Senate receiving a copy a House bill that was entirely blacked out, and it wasn’t a mistake.

When the Senate sends the House a bill, and the House disagrees with a portion of the bill, they send it back with the parts they don’t like blacked out.

There is no exception if the House disagrees with the entire bill, so each member of Senate receives a blacked out copy of the original bill.

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