Censor bars

Censor bars are a basic form of text, photography, and video censorship in which "sensitive" information or images are occluded by black, gray, or even white rectangular boxes. These bars have been used to censor various parts of images.[1][2] Since the creation of digital editing software which can apply less obtrusive effects such as pixelization and blurring, censor bars are typically used for satire,[3][4] although they remain in contemporary use to address privacy concerns.

Illustrations of usage
  • A 1965 FBI surveillance photograph
  • A heavily redacted page from the lawsuit American Civil Liberties Union v. Ashcroft
  • The censor bar as used by Google in the SOPA and PIPA online protests
  • Censor bars applied to an academy painting
  • Censor bars applied to a model
  • Censor bars applied to a patient with Stevens–Johnson syndrome
  • A female Ashkenazi Jew with familial dysautonomia.
  • The Turkish Wikipedia logo with a censor bar above the text. This version of the logo has been in use since Turkish authorities blocked online access to Wikipedia in all languages across Turkey.
gollark: I figure that if the government here actually wants to see the content of my internet traffic, they probably could individually muck with my connection/devices/whatever somehow, but also probably do not do this generally or particularly often.
gollark: Sure! But that doesn't mean they're actively being exploited all the time.
gollark: Also, it is possible that you are overestimating the reach of random intelligence agencies, inasmuch as a lot of communication is now cryptographically secured.
gollark: <@!237554605762936834> You know you can try and *reduce* the amount of random spying you experience?
gollark: The meme of this decade is... probably the money printer ones or more general coronavirus ones, so far?

See also

References
  1. The Purple Decades: A Reader, Tom Wolfe, p. 78
  2. Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, Margot Lovejoy & Christiane Paul & Victoria Vesna
  3. Banned in the media: a reference guide to censorship in the press, motion pictures, broadcasting, and the internet, Herbert N. Foerstel, p. 208
  4. Click: The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage with People, Work, and Everything We Do, Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman, p.108


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