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by NeoTar 662 days ago
There is a difference between consciously erasing the past in the 1984-novel style, and re-releasing an updated version of a book. The important thing being that the original texts are still available - we aren't seizing original editions from homes and burning them.

Admittedly that's actually a more complicated when it comes to electronic texts which may be automatically updated.