Why is placing a black bar only over someone’s eyes considered adequate enough to not be able to identify them?
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Nobody would argue that a black bar prevents people from being identified as effectively as covering the whole face.
Sure, it works surprisingly well, as other comments have mentioned.
But think about the context where you see eye-bar censorship. It’s newspaper photos.
A newspaper wants the most salacious possible photo that still technically “obscures the ID of the person” by legal requirement.
The newspaper COULD fully cover the face of the person, but that would remove emotion and scandal from the photo.
So, in the same way that “tape over the nipples is technically not nudity,” a black bar over the eyes is technically censorship but as little as they can get away with.
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