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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(PS5) And nearly every critique I’ve seen so far erases the dramatic and decades-long history of Roald Dahl’s work being revised—sometimes by him but sometimes by others—for precisely the same reason it was just revised by Puffin. That history is an inconvenient truth for some. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2023

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(PS4) And nearly every critique I’ve seen so far of what Puffin did ignores the fact that it’s copyright law and free markets—not some sort of eldritch political movement seeking to accrue power to itself—that enabled what happened here and makes it unlikely to be oft replicated. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2023

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(PS6) And nearly every critique I’ve seen so far ignores the possibility of mitigation measures—for instance, the continued availability of original versions in some venues or simply critiques of editing like we’re seeing here that urge it to be *surgical* rather than non-extant. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2023