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Hugged to death? :(

Seems so. Shame! Really wanted to see this.

You really, really do. It's quite something.

It's back and wow, it's incredible!

Should be back online now!

Did you just equate a social media ban and torrenting to... child pornography?

No, he gave two different examples of websites that is typically blocked in the United Kingdom

Pointing out an analogy between two things, or describing them as two examples of a more general phenomenon, is not “equating” them.


Indeed. Don't think anything is being "concealed"! The rediscovered memoir has been transcribed and made available at the link posted above, while the full research seems to be available without a paywall here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-s...


This can be said about literally any software? And as GP points out, it's not "dictating what you can use or have" - you can turn it back on.

> It makes it harder to find other sources of information on someone

No it doesn't. Googling or searching on Wikipedia for either name yields the same page.


> I personally prefer not having other people decide for me which facts are and aren't relevant

Then reading Wikipedia probably isn't a great idea.


Reading any encyclopedia, for that matters. The job of an encyclopedist is literally to distill “generally useful” information, it has never been about being exhaustive.

Their guidelines on using dead names says why that is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Biog...



GP didn't say all parrots wouldn't survive - they said a majority wouldn't without a flock, which your link seems to at least partially agree with.

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