It's easier than ever to de-censor videos

Bad blackout jobs are in the news since the 50s and every time an expert tells the same solution. If you want to censor something remove the information.

Easier said than done if you're using a proportional font though

black box is black box, or other more pleasing color.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.02285

    In this work we find that many current redactions of PDF text are insecure due to non-redacted character positioning information. In particular, subpixel-sized horizontal shifts in redacted and non-redacted characters can be recovered and used to effectively deredact first and last names.

Information-theoretic attacks work on black boxes too