Comment by curtisblaine
8 hours ago
> 1984 describes
1984 describes the practice of retroactively editing publication to erase facts from history.
Wikipedia is retroactively scrubbing not only articles but also their discussion and their editing history to erase facts that are thought to be inconvenient.
Feels reducto ad absurdum. Every encyclopedia does this when it turns a person with fifty biographies about them into a one page encyclopedia entry.