I still think that the word redacted is meant to destroy the original text, it might not remove the metadata (e.g. length).
Redaction is done mostly in ways with a possibility to reveal the underlying text, but all this is not redacted in my understanding of the word. I always liked the english word for this – the german word "schwärzen" just means to "blacken" the text and this was never the same for me.
But after further research I must agree with you, it just means to obscure or remove, but not clearly just remove. I have been using it for years in a stronger meaning that it's really meant.
One more but: we hopefully can all agree that putting a black bar over some text which still is just copy/pasteable is not even obscuring.
I still think that the word redacted is meant to destroy the original text, it might not remove the metadata (e.g. length).
Redaction is done mostly in ways with a possibility to reveal the underlying text, but all this is not redacted in my understanding of the word. I always liked the english word for this – the german word "schwärzen" just means to "blacken" the text and this was never the same for me.
But after further research I must agree with you, it just means to obscure or remove, but not clearly just remove. I have been using it for years in a stronger meaning that it's really meant.
One more but: we hopefully can all agree that putting a black bar over some text which still is just copy/pasteable is not even obscuring.