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techniques vary from country to country with preferred methods generally including
use of cloning, blurring, pixelization, and whitening out sites of interest.
Surprisingly, one of the most vociferous of all governments to enforce this form of
censorship were the Dutch, hiding hundreds of significant sites including royal palaces, fuel depots and army barracks throughout their relatively small country. The
Dutch method of censorship is notable for its stylistic intervention compared to other
countries; imposing bold, multi-coloured polygons over sites rather than the subtler
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