Talk:Cartographic censorship

Latest comment: 1 year ago by LlywelynII in topic WP:BIAS issues
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This article is horrible, someone standardize it.74.70.57.209 (talk) 13:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

BT Tower

BT Tower in London was originally considered "Top Secret". Though it as completed in 1964, it did not appear on maps until after 1993 when its existence was officially "confirmed". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Tower — Preceding unsigned comment added by Falijah (talkcontribs) 13:54, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

WP:BIAS issues

...and also apparently just wrong. Censorship is in all cases restriction and not psyops, misdirection, or whatever this article is attempting to talk about. India and others mooting punishment for Google Maps carrying detailed imagery of their defenses is censorship. The US, UK, and USSR promoting false information on certain locations on maps isn't. Any of those countries actively penalizing the provision of true information about those locations would be but isn't how the current article is framed.

There's also an obvious US and Western European bias involved in most of the coverage. Certainly things like the different Chinese empires' traditional policies of considering unauthorized possession of detailed maps de facto evidence of treason is the most textbook example of what cartographic censorship actually is. That it's outside the scope of the current article only speaks to how misdirected the current contents are. — LlywelynII 05:40, 21 January 2023 (UTC)