people have figured out that the redacted documents released were not done with any redaction tool but merely highlighted boxes. many people are now combing through everything to see what can actually be viewed after all.

  • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    It feels like someone wanted this out and had to follow orders. If intentional, it’s brilliant. If not, it’s hilarious.

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      11 hours ago

      Believing that someone engaged in some malicious compliance here would restore a tiny sliver of my faith in humanity… which means it was probably just incompetence.

    • fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net
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      9 hours ago

      This has happened plenty of times before with redacted documents, someone just goes in, sets the highlighting tool to black, and uses it that way, without realizing that doesn’t actually obscure the words underneath like a sharpie would