Censorship in an image that completely fails to properly conceal the object in question, or, in rarer cases, censoring something that doesn't need to be censored.
A complete lack of censorship is generally frowned on by Japanese publishers, so artists will use techniques seen here in order to avoid confrontation.
The following tags are aliased to this tag: pointless_censorship (learn more).
This tag implicates censored (learn more).