diff --git a/pep-0540.txt b/pep-0540.txt
index ec5e76220..af1ac016e 100644
--- a/pep-0540.txt
+++ b/pep-0540.txt
@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ the locale; the encoding and the locale are tightly coupled.
 Many users inherit the ASCII encoding from the POSIX locale, aka the "C"
 locale, but are unable change the locale for different reasons. This
 encoding is very limited in term of Unicode support: any non-ASCII
-character is likely to cause troubles. For example, the Alpine Linux
-distribution became popular thanks to Docker containers, but it uses the
-POSIX locale by default.
+character is likely to cause troubles.
 
 It is not easy to get the expected locale. Locales don't get the exact
 same name on all Linux distributions, FreeBSD, macOS, etc. Some