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		p-e-w 48 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone Your analogy fails because the purpose of stage magic is concealing what’s going on. That’s not what happened here. Someone just made a really stupid mistake that even non-technical folks can accidentally discover. There are undoubtedly some people who would be fooled by this, but you don’t have to be technical in order to not be one of them.

ben_w 48 days ago [–]

> the purpose of stage magic is concealing what’s going on. That’s not what happened here

That's *literally* what "redaction" is.

These people are bad at magic, were told to do magic, fooled only themselves and other people who are also bad at magic.

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