I can't believe the reason this stupid conversation started again wasn't even over GOOD "abandonware" but MattY actually deciding to go to bat for the ching-chong Chinaman caricature in Dr Seuss' Mulberry Street book Like if we all forget that happened we're living in 1984
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FWIW the copyright system as most people understand it doesn't allow for literal 1984 memory-holing Discussing the fact that these books existed and passing around screenshot of the offensive pages all clearly fall under the "criticism" banner of fair use
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You just can't, you know, publish the racist books and sell them for money if the rights holder doesn't want you to Which Ryan and Matty seem to think it's a very important human right for some reason (agreeing with the talking heads at Fox News)
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Also repentance, yeah? What if the author disavows ignorant points of view - and their old works don't reflect their enlightened current mindset?
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The first edition of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game included the N-word and Card famously offered to buy back the book from anyone who owned this version of it and replace it with a new copy free of charge, to ensure that as many copies of the original as possible were destroyed
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70 years is a bit much, though. Besides, almost no one remembers the stereotypical caricatures anyway, all this hullabaloo notwithstanding
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