Maria BustillosOn the bowdlerization of Roald Dahl
https://popula.com/2023/02/20/leave-roald-dahl-be-for-inclusions-sake/
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Antipope Superstar@maria this is a good take. Also, in terms of public domain - there are some editions of The Patchwork Girl of Oz that eliminate the infamous Tottenhots chapter, and some that leave it as published. And since there's no copyright on it anymore, parents can choose
that's how it should be! so people can see all that happened, and what everyone thought and wrote.
@maria yeah, I see the value of both having the original warts and all version for its historical value, as well as a version you can just read to your kid without having a Teachable Moment
And not even about copyright but about physical media vs streaming, back in the day Disney had different lines of DVDs, some for families and some for grown up animation nerds, which weren't pushed as widely, all the problematic older stuff could go out on the second line. But it's harder to do that with Disney+