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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Just saying it sounds like its the rights holders making these changes.
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Here is a relevant paragraph from the Telegraph story that is already in a Wayback Machine page I'm not sure I should link to (since the original Telegraph article is behind a paywall):
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The Dahl estate owned the rights to the books until 2021, when Netflix bought them outright for a reported $686 million, building on an earlier rights deal. The American streaming service now has overall control over the book publishing, as well as various adaptation projects that are in the works. These are the first new editions since the deal, but the review began before the sale.
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So, when the family owned most rights, someone did a review. I can do a review too. Review all you want -- I am only concerned about actions taken.
The way I read the original Telegraph story, there might have been a rare and isolated extremely-ugly-word change before Netflix took over, but all, or almost all, of the changes were not in the published books until after Netflix owned all the rights.
EDIT: But I guess the above is trivia. It shouldn't matter, for sake of this discussion, whether the bowdlerizer is genetically related to the deceased author. An exception might be where the surviving rights-owning relative was a spouse who acted as almost a co-author, but there is nothing like that here.