Criterion modifying film essays for political jabs

I came across an odd thing today when reading the essay booklet for my Criterion Blu-ray copy of Brute Force that was released in 2020 (1947 / Spine #383). I was reading the essay titled Screws and Proles by Michael Atkinson. In the essay, Atkinson describes the antagonist of the film, Captain Munsey, when he wrote "But Cronyn’s Captain Munsey is the crucial figure, a calm, obsequious tyrant capable of success as either a Nazi Party member or a Republican appointee and with, it is slowly revealed, a capacity for rubber-hose torture the likes of which American film had been up to that point blissfully unaware."

I then saw that Criterion has the same essay on their website that was published earlier in 2007. In that version, Atkinson uses different wording to describe Munsey: "But Cronyn’s Captain Munsey is the crucial figure, a calm, obsequious tyrant capable of success as either a Nazi Party member or Enron executive and with, it is slowly revealed, a capacity for rubber-hose torture the likes of which American film had been up to that point blissfully unaware."

Regardless of whether I agree or disagree with Atkinson's statements, I find it very weird, and possibly even unethical, that they're modifying published film essays for political jabs. Has anyone come across a similar situation on another Criterion release?