A Critical Dragon | Censorship, Roald Dahl, and Some Points of Clarification @ACriticalDragon | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
It seems that everyone and their dog is 'censoring' older works recently, except maybe that is not quite true, and potentially there is a bit more to this than the blunt knee-jerk censorship discussions we have heard about this.
Roald Dahl's books, Ian Fleming's Bond novels, and more have relatively recently come under scrutiny in terms of interventionist editing to update them for a modern audience.
Far from a modern moral panic, this is actually less about woke sensitivity readers and far more about what happens when you extend copyright far beyond the lifetime of the author.
We all want original works kept intact, but in this case most of the books had already been changed for precisely the reasons these new changes have been vilified for.
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It seems that everyone and their dog is 'censoring' older works recently, except maybe that is not quite true, and potentially there is a bit more to this than the blunt knee-jerk censorship discussions we have heard about this.
Roald Dahl's books, Ian Fleming's Bond novels, and more have relatively recently come under scrutiny in terms of interventionist editing to update them for a modern audience.
Far from a modern moral panic, this is actually less about woke sensitivity readers and far more about what happens when you extend copyright far beyond the lifetime of the author.
We all want original works kept intact, but in this case most of the books had already been changed for precisely the reasons these new changes have been vilified for.
If you would like to buy me a coffee or a book, Support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/criticaldragon
Intro and Music by Professor Trip.
