> 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.