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• Krishna-kirti provides commentary on the commentary on Dandavats.com, including a comment that I left.
• His Holiness Sivarama Swami gave a brief podcast addressing the annotations strategy.
• Amara das, head of the Gay and Lesbian Vaisnava Association [website], wrote proposing that the scope of the annotations be widened and all potentially misunderstood and offensive statements should be annotated.
• Pandu das wrote with concern about this tendency to widen the scope, and with concern about how annotations might recast Srila Prabhupada's statements.

Rob from Pedal Yatra gives a cogent argument:

Look at it like this, if we start changing the books, the people who don’t like us are going to keep on not liking us anyway. The people who weren’t sure whether they liked us or not are going to suspicious as to why we feel the need to apologise for our teacher. And the people who like us are going to wonder if we actually have the same faith in Srila Prabhupada that persuaded them to totally change their lives around and become involved with this movement.