Criterion Channel under fire for unexplained edit in "The French Connection" https://boingboing.net/2023/06/07/criterion-channel-under-fire-for-unexplained-edit-in-the-french-connection.html

Here we go again. #censorship #bowdlerizing #films #movies #fuckery

Oh, FFS here we go again, but yea, keep griping when Karen and the #PartyOfStupid #Christofascists come to censor your favorite library or get them to ban your favorite book.

>Jeeves and Wooster stories censored to avoid offending modern readers

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F04%2F15%2Fjeeves-and-wooster-censored-penguins-latest-sensitivity%2F

#BannedBooks #censorship #books #reading #bowdlerizing

Not surprising. It's called CYA for the publishers and estates, but in this age of something offends someone somewhere no matter what, it is what it is. TBH, don't like a book, simple, don't read it. If enough people forget the book, out of print and gone. The cycle of life.

>Publishers are cynically using ‘sensitivity readers’ to protect their bottom lines
https://www.theguardian.com/books/commentisfree/2023/mar/09/roald-dahl-censorship-sensitivity-readers-books

#books #reading #CYA #censorship #bowdlerizing