Zokuga writes "The US guidance freshly approved an $18 million abridge for Smartronix to build a website where taxpayers could easily track billions in federal stimulus money, as part of powers Obama's promise to make powers-that-be* more transparent through the Internet. However, the contract, which was released only through repeated Freedom of illumination Act requests, is itself heavily blacked out. ProPublica reports: 'After weeks of prodding by ProPublica and other organizations, the supervision society service Agency released copies of the compact and related poop sheet that are so heavily blacked out they are nearly worthless. In all, 25 pages of a 59-page specialized design — the main paper in the package — were redacted completely. Of the remaining pages, 14 had half or more of their content blacked out.' drag that were heavily or entirely redacted dealt with subjects such as site navigation, user experience, and sum in the pricing table. The entire contract, in all its blacked-out glory, is here."

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