Is Openleaks Censored?

Yes. It is possible to be censored by the Openleaks community of publishers. The only way someone will know whether an Openleak submission has been censored by a publication source is to be in their general circle of members, or be the original submitter. A comparison then of the originals to the published articles will tell who has censored what or not. But, in general you the audience may never know if an Openleak's submission was censored or not.

This is a major drawback for Openleaks. Traditional whistle blower sites like Wikileaks do in fact publish whole submissions unedited without question.

Data submitted to the OpenLeaks community can become increasingly available to all members (see Concept section for a full explanation of this process). Upon submission, whistleblowers have the possibility to specify whether or not the information they provide should also be made available to the community at large. Keeping the majority of leaks open within the community will, ideally, foster a general attitude of publishing only full releases of original documents, since if this does not occur, it will be easy for the community to trace the cause of any censorship.