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MagaSmash

(11,741 posts)
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 02:21 PM 9 hrs ago

Internet Sleuths were able to UNREDACT some files: You can access them here:

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by TexasTowelie (a host of the Liberal YouTubers group).

Someone on BlueSky noticed that they could select redacted text - eg the original text was still available just obscured, from US vs. Virgin Islands, Case No.: ST-20-CV-14.

With a python script, we can ingest the whole document and extract all text, then rebuild it in the same layout (roughly) for legal minds to consider. It can be accessed here. To my knowledge the vast majority of the redacted portions of this document are now accessible.

The legal reference point here is recently heavily redacted files recently released by the Justice Department which involve the late Jeffery Epstein.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HFqpFLOJgYLiAgjTe7aqRGiZRRSNCRtf

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Internet Sleuths were able to UNREDACT some files: You can access them here: (Original Post) MagaSmash 9 hrs ago OP
Some redactors going to be in a heap of trouble! bucolic_frolic 8 hrs ago #1
Locking thread. TexasTowelie 8 hrs ago #2

bucolic_frolic

(53,804 posts)
1. Some redactors going to be in a heap of trouble!
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 02:42 PM
8 hrs ago

Temporary redacting seems kind of pointless not to mention ineffectual!!!

TexasTowelie

(125,154 posts)
2. Locking thread.
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 03:11 PM
8 hrs ago

The thread does not include a video without going to a link. Suggest reposting in GD.

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