Disney+ Hong Kong: Simpsons fans noticed the Tiananmen Square episode is missing

Published:Dec 7, 202310:26
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In the 2005 episode "Goo Goo Gai Pan," the household travels to China to undertake a child. The Simpsons clan stops in Beijing's Tiananmen Square the place they discover a signal that claims, "On this site, in 1989, nothing happened," a biting joke about the 1989 occasion the place pro-democracy protestors gathered for a number of months.
According to a number of experiences, that twelfth episode of season 16 of "The Simpsons" is not out there in the Disney+ lineup for purchasers in Hong Kong.
Neither Disney (DIS) nor China responded to CNN Business' request for remark about why the episode is unavailable. It's unclear if China is blocking the episode in query or if Disney has chosen to not air the episode there.
Hong Kong's Bureau of Commerce and Economic Development stated in an announcement printed by the New York Times that its lately enacted censorship ordinance applies to films and never streaming providers, like Disney+.
China has often censored media, and firms that function inside the nation are pressured to censor search outcomes for Chinese customers — significantly photographs and details about the Tiananmen Square protests and the killings that ensued.
The Chinese authorities has labored arduous to limit photographs and experiences of the 1989 occasion, contemplating it a menace to the legitimacy of its continued one-party rule.
Many have been killed on June 4, 1989, in Tiananmen Square. Estimates of the demise toll vary from a number of hundred to hundreds. The bloodbath made headlines round the world — as did iconic photographs corresponding to "Tank Man" defying the troops on the sq..
Hong Kong traditionally has had more inventive freedom than mainland China. In current years, China has cracked down on content material underneath a 2020 National Security Law that criminalized acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with overseas forces to hazard nationwide safety.


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