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Tall-Display-8219 t1_j93w76z wrote
Reply to comment by boxer_dogs_dance in Are Publishers as bad as Orwell's 'Ministry of truth'? by _green_cloak_
Not entirely sure. A quick Google tells me that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published by Scholastic as well. Not done a lot of research into it though so might be wrong on that. I guess you could always look for a publication date before the edits when buying online too
Tall-Display-8219 t1_j93qybp wrote
A private company publishing edited versions of fictional books is not the same as a totalitarian government seeking to alter peoples perception of reality by altering historical documents.
Consider the following: people are not being forced to read the new versions, the old versions are not being banned or outlawed by any government, this is just one publisher, the edits are minor and don't fundamentally change the stories, the books are fictional anyway so never represented the "truth" about anything to begin with.
So no... its not even remotely the same thing.
Tall-Display-8219 t1_j983spl wrote
Reply to comment by account312 in Are Publishers as bad as Orwell's 'Ministry of truth'? by _green_cloak_
No. But that isn't what's happening here