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Censor bars

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Basic form of censorship

Censor bars, also known asblack bars, are a basic form of text,photography, andvideo censorship in which "sensitive" information or images are occluded by black, gray, or white rectangular boxes. These bars have been used to censor various parts of images.^[1]^[2] Since the creation ofdigital editing software which can apply less obtrusive effects such aspixelization andblurring, censor bars are typically used forsatire,^[3]^[4] although they remain in contemporary use to addressprivacy concerns. Censor bars are also used in art forms such asblackout 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 orfig leaves instead of just bars.

Illustrations of usage

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A 1965Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance photograph
A heavilyredacted page from the lawsuitAmerican Civil Liberties Union v. Ashcroft
The censor bar as used byGoogle in theSOPA and PIPA online protests
Censor bars applied to anacademy painting,The Birth of Venus byWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau
Censor bars applied to amodel
Censor bars applied to a patient withStevens–Johnson syndrome
Censor bars used to anonymise a woman withfamilial dysautonomia
TheTurkish Wikipedia logo with a censor bar covering the text, used from April 2017 to January 2020 whenTurkish authorities blocked online access to Wikipedia in all languages across Turkey
A portion of the redacted affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for former U.S. President Donald Trump'sMar-a-Lago home and resort, with the signature block blacked out

References

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^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]

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