i assume the downvoters don't see the importance of the question.

The downvoters assume that it is a bad faith question. The downvoters are 99% right with that. If the 1% hit then OP is just exceedingly naive and did not followed the scandal in which case they should maybe first do some reading.

The names of involved powerful people were NOT supposed to be censored. All those names except Bill Clinton name were redacted. To protect Trump and everybody else involved in the scandal except said Bill Clinton. But especially to protect Trump.

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mapontosevenths 13 hours ago | parent [-]

They also obscured the male perpetrators faces and bodies in many images, illegaly.

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mindslight 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I assume that de facto federal "law" now makes it illegal to be raped, and those men are the victims. That would be a logical conclusion of edgelord vice signalling, right?

	▲	mapontosevenths 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I know what all of these words mean, but not when they're in this order.