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Originally Posted by theinfamousj
It is that you are advocating the deletion, removal, burning-if-you-will of the modernized version rather than allowing it to live in tandem with the original wording that already exists, and simply selecting the original wording to read.
It isn't enough for you that the author's text is preserved, but all other derivatives must be extinguished. That is, if not censorship, against the spirit of public domain.
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You have it all wrong there. It's not censorship to want to undo the unauthorized changes done to the book. Censorship is changing the word gay to light-hearted. Think we won't understand the way gay was used and thus changing it is a form of censorship. Now adding in a footnote/endnote to say that gay means light-hearted in case anyone had trouble with the meaning is OK. It's not editing the book in a way that censors the book.