Censor bars

Censor bars (often known as black bars or censor boxes) 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 usually only used for satire,[3][4] although they remain in contemporary use.

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.

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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