This book my wife checked out has some sections that are HEAVILY redacted.

Epstein Diary

Lemony snicket?

I clicked on this interesting post hoping to learn the name of the book and why it is censored so heavily. I wanted to know the story behind what OP is reading. But the only comments are political brainrot slop and low effort “jokes”. This site is awful

Where have I seen that before? Feel like it was a fairly recent ordeal…

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s memoir, initially published in 2015 as
Guantánamo Diary, was heavily redacted by the U.S. government, with over 2,500 black bars censoring the text. A fully unredacted English version, titled Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition, was published in October 2017 after his release from imprisonment.

The Redacted Version

Slahi wrote his 466-page manuscript by hand in English, his fourth language, while detained without charge in Guantánamo Bay in 2005. The U.S. government declassified the manuscript in 2012 but imposed extensive redactions, resulting in thousands of blacked-out passages in the 2015 published version.

These redactions often seemed arbitrary, with censors even blacking out the word “tears” when Slahi described crying at a moment of kindness from a guard. The redacted text highlighted the absurdity and heavy-handedness of the censorship process, with the black bars themselves becoming a prominent aesthetic and political feature of the book.

The Restored (Unredacted) Version

Slahi was released in October 2016 after 14 years of detention. Following his release, a “restored edition” of his memoir was published in 2017, filling in the previously censored material.

The restored edition provides a complete account of his experiences, including details of the “special interrogation plan” that involved severe torture, such as sleep deprivation, isolation, temperature extremes, beatings, sexual humiliation, and a mock execution at sea. The fully revealed text allowed readers to access the full scope of his narratie, which he had addressed to the American public.

The complete, unredacted manuscript is also available online on the book’s official website, guantanamodiary.com, in a scanned, unclassified form.

Just copy paste them.

I think the most interesting version would be the uncensored one, but with the redactions still marked. That way we can see what’s been important enough to censor.

‘The land of the free’ censoring books. Imagine that. So much for freedom I guess.

My copy of “How Many More Women?” has a few heavily redacted sections too, due to court cases against sexual harassers being ongoing.

Epstein’s diary released by the DOJ