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        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Change state discretely, stamped, redacted or rejected, never with easing; who applies it is not settled.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:dcc:motion-14"
            ],
            "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
          },
          {
            "rule": "A stamp may be applied by the reader's press: in Papers, Please the player brings it down.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:w2-motion-2"
            ],
            "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
          },
          {
            "rule": "Land a stamp in two steps: lifted, then down.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:dcc:motion-14"
            ],
            "because": "State changes are discrete and never eased."
          }
        ]
      },
      "dimensions": [
        {
          "key": "redaction",
          "label": "Redaction",
          "summary": "The one element the research evidences as a real device: text overwritten with a wide black pen or covered with opaque tape before copying, each redaction carrying a code for why it is withheld. Remove it and the register collapses into Archival.",
          "tokens": {
            "bar": "#16191D",
            "bar-height": "1.05em"
          },
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Redact by covering text with an opaque black bar, as with a wide pen or redaction tape.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:technique-1"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Give each redaction a code for the reason it is withheld.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:technique-2"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Never drop the redaction.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:failure-7"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Keep the bar the shape of what it covers, and never put one over content the reader needs.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:gestalt",
                "claim:intent-audience"
              ],
              "because": "Content stays legibly present as a shape; a website must not actually withhold what it offers."
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "notRecorded": [
        {
          "category": "imagery",
          "what": "Imagery",
          "why": "Not specified by the source; \"forms do not carry imagery\" is our reading."
        },
        {
          "category": "gridLayout",
          "what": "Density",
          "why": "Not specified by the source."
        },
        {
          "category": "motion",
          "what": "Who applies a state change",
          "why": "An open question: one game has the player stamp; the held reading of an unseen authority is not evidenced."
        },
        {
          "category": "components",
          "what": "Interface conventions",
          "why": "The research documents film sets and disclosure practice, not web components. The four components are translations."
        }
      ],
      "silence": {
        "color": "source",
        "typography": "source",
        "gridLayout": "source",
        "shapeGeometry": "source",
        "imagery": "source",
        "components": "source",
        "motion": "source"
      },
      "uiNote": "The record documents interface conventions for Dystopian Bureaucratic. These four components are contemporary builds on those conventions, not historical artefacts."
    }
  }
}