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Speaker Johnson Explains Holdup In Releasing Jan 6 Tapes: ‘We Have To Blur Some Of The Faces’ To Protect Them From The DOJ

www.mediaite.com Mike Johnson Explains Holdup In Releasing Jan 6 Tapes: 'We Have To Blur Some Of The Faces'

Mike Johnson claimed he will release the rest of the Jan. 6 footage in the interest of transparency, as soon as staffers blur the faces of the participants.

Yes. You read that right. Johnson is saying that he is intentionally hiding insurrectionists from prosecution in the release of tapes that Republicans claim will vindicate them on January 6th.

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Almost positive the government has the tech to see through blurred faces. The alphabet boys will track down everyone they need to regardless.
- If they did, it'd be the same as the "enhance" tech from the tv shows.
  Blurring causes information loss, the blurrier it is, the more information is lost.
  After a certain point, so much is lost that nothing's gonna help you get it back.
- That would depend in the degree of blur. If it is the average blur you'd have in japanese pornography, then no, that tech does not exist. Super resolution is good, but not that good.
  And no, I have not tried.
  
  I'm just going to leave this 7-year-old post here and dream of a better tomorrow...
  https://stackoverflow.com/a/21800669
  If there's one thing I know, it's that the human mind will always find a better way given enough time.
  
  reading subthread about Japanese porn blurring
  In practice the results are often quite disappointing because of strong noise enhancement and ringing. To reduce these effects, the Wiener filter is preferred http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_deconvolution.
  snort
- It depends on how the blur is done. A lot of the simple blurring teqniques have publicly available tools for reversing. If you need to hide information by blurring, make sure the blur you are using was designed with that in mind (as opposed to being an artsy feature)
- What's it like licking boots all day?

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