What got censored? | Comparing the original Goldfinger to the 2023 censored version line-by-line

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[@HaphazardStuff]

Really respect your passion about the changes that were done to the books - or at least some of them. I hope one day we get a definitive list of all the text that were altered.

[@richardloganpowelliii4850]

I was genuinely shocked to hear this result. But I suppose, maddeningly, that it was done to not just needlessly cater to black people (as the West has been doing in overdrive since 2020) but also to drum up cheap publicity. It’s bothered me that no change list was provided, but perhaps Fleming’s estate has not done so because the list is meager…

[@ellenmarch3095]

I love the Interwebs. 😂😂 Transparency is now unavoidable, oh emperors who might be a *wee* bit chilly, either direction. Fair play, mate!!

[@mrdsfitness]

It speaks volumes that IFP doesn't reply to you, or communicate much at all with their audience. In 2023, apart from companies that are trying to screw you over, who does this?!

[@wizard73282]

Would be good to be able to find older versions of the books that aren't so expensive.

[@EthanKnight97]

Get any editions before 2023 before it's too late.

[@yestoadventure007]

You’re very clever. Did anyone ever tell you that?

[@RolandHulme]

Not nearly often enough 😂🤣

[@billkoenig1552]

Perhaps Ian Fleming Publication should have printing on its covers doesn't rub off after one reading (On His Majesty's Secret Service).

[@DamnFoolIdealisticCrusader]

We’re right to be upset as any form of censorship is wrong. To find that the changes are sporadic and all over the place isn’t surprising. They should indeed make a list of the changes made. I refuse to purchase and support altered works in any way which is how one has to look and search for the purported changes made. I’d be doing a full scan on my own as well if it didn’t mean purchasing new copies of the altered works. I had to go to a bookstore in person and look at the US Casino Royale new printing to see it had the alteration credit and how horribly cheap the printing itself is. The paperbacks are being spread out in release over the next year.

[@billkoenig1552]

Ian Fleming Publications controls the copyright so it can change whatever it wants.