The Elmira Correctional Facility in Elmira, New York, is a maximum-security prison with a wild history. The Elmira Correctional Facility, New York Until 2013, the palace, as seen on Google Earth, looked like something out of an old Atari game.

The office building of the country's kind was once painstakingly blurred pixel-by-pixel with a much more delicate hand than usually used on the country's satellite imagery. Most of the censored areas in the Netherlands used the large, pixelated mask still seen in Noordwijk aan Zee to obscure sensitive sites, but Noordeinde Palace in The Hague got a more personal touch. (There are some spots, like a blob in Noordwijk aan Zee, where new satellite imagery has yet to become available since the law change.) According to CNN, Dutch law changed in 2013 to lift this censorship, and the Netherlands have become considerably clearer since. On Google Earth, the country was dotted with pixelated splotches covering military bases, government buildings and more. The Dutch are rather famous in satellite-imagery-loving circles for their enthusiastic pixelation.

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