Censor bars
Censor bars, also known as black bars, are a basic form of text,
blackout poetry
.
Censor bars may also have the words 'censored', 'redacted', 'private information', 'sensitive information', etc. to indicate their presence.
Sometimes, censor bars are replaced by images instead of just bars.
Illustrations of usage
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A 1965Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillancephotograph
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A heavilyAmerican Civil Liberties Union v. Ashcroft
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The censor bar as used by Google in the SOPA and PIPA online protests
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Censor bars applied to a model
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Censor bars applied to a patient with Stevens–Johnson syndrome
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Censor bars used to anonymise a woman with familial dysautonomia
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TheTurkish authorities blocked online access to Wikipedia in all languages across Turkey
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A portion of the redacted affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort, with the signature block blacked out.
See also
- Sanitization (classified information)
References
- ^ The Purple Decades: A Reader, Tom Wolfe, p. 78
- ^ Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, Margot Lovejoy & Christiane Paul & Victoria Vesna [1]
- ^ Banned in the media: a reference guide to censorship in the press, motion pictures, broadcasting, and the internet, Herbert N. Foerstel, p. 208 [2]
- ^ Click: The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage with People, Work, and Everything We Do, Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman, p.108 [3]
External links
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