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		curtisblaine 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doe... > 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.

komali2 2 days ago [–]

Feels reducto ad absurdum. Every encyclopedia does this when it turns a person with fifty biographies about them into a one page encyclopedia entry.

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