> Wow, I would expect there would at least be a single mention of "born Dagny Benedict" somewhere at the beginning of the background section as is typical in other pages. If this is intentional, to omit this entirely seems like it unnecessarily politicizes the issue rather than documenting the history of a person.

It's all very 1984-esque; I'm seeing shades of "We were never/always at war with Oceania/Eurasia".

This is revisionist history, and the scrubbing of previously correct but now incorrect "history" should be viewed with suspicion.

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The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth.

> It's all very 1984-esque; I'm seeing shades of "We were never/always at war with Oceania/Eurasia".

This is a hilarious take.

There's little things less “1984-esque” than a small self-structured collective organization enforcing the preference of an individual on how they should be named.

It's the opposite of “a dictatorship imposing its views on individuals through propaganda”, it's a collective of people helping an individual, dead for not being as society wanted them to be, have their personal wish fulfilled even after death. People who want to dead name the victim, are the one who want to erase the individual to make it fit the mold of society, they are the totalitarian hivemind, they are the Tom Parsons of our reality.

Orwell being a lifelong anarchist socialist, there's very little doubt on which side he'd be in that debate.