Submitted on Monday 20th February 2023
Rejected on Thursday 23rd February 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Protect British authors/literature from being censored or redacted posthumously.
In Wake of the publisher Puffin books censoring and rewriting the works of Roald Dahl through hundreds of changes to remove potentially offensive content. There is a genuine concern of the dangerous road this paves to the re-writing of litreature and history. Rather than understanding of context.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped." ~ George Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four.
Although given the actions of publishers to rewrite long dead authors' works, it could be presented reality and foreshadowing of things to come should the goverment allow censorship of fiction.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about the publication of intellectual property are a matter for the owners and publishers, not the UK Government or Parliament.
3.134.118.95 Thu, 02 May 2024 18:50:59 +0100
