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People should not be able to retroactively edit books. Imagine they rewrite lord of the rings and make everyone a woman. How is that ok?
by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
People should not be able to retroactively edit books.
Imagine they rewrite lord of the rings and make everyone a woman.
How is that ok?
- Kye 4y agoWhat would be the actual harm? It's no different from Disney rewriting Robin Hood to make everyone animals. All the other takes on Robin Hood still exist.
- josephcsible 4y agoThe harm comes when the original work stops being sold to force new buyers to only ever have access to the rewrite.
- bentley 4y agoI counter: it should be okay for anyone to retroactively edit books. The problem here is not that the books are being made worse, but that the copyright holders are the ones doing it, they’re the only ones who can legally publish the book, and thus as used copies deteriorate and disappear, the only legally published editions available will be the censored versions.