This fact per se is not enough 1984, but the reason of that, end especially the power standing at the very beginning of that reasoning is certainly like that.

1984 describes an insurmountably established Soviet-esque state with omniscient surveillance and omnipotent monopoly on violence.

We're discussing a FOSS website that many people use.

There's quite literally nothing stopping you from making "unwoke" Wikipedia or whatever. You probably could even get Elon Musk to signal boost it.

> 1984 describes

1984 describes the practice of retroactively editing publication to erase facts from history.

Wikipedia is retroactively scrubbing not only articles but also their discussion and their editing history to erase facts that are thought to be inconvenient.

Feels reducto ad absurdum. Every encyclopedia does this when it turns a person with fifty biographies about them into a one page encyclopedia entry.