Disney+ Drops Simpsons Episode in Hong Kong Because of Tiananmen Square Joke
By Donna November 30, 2021 7:23 am Category: Simpsons (0.0 from 0 votes)
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This is what real hatred of freedom looks like. I think it's more about fear than hatred though.
China's authoritarian government is afraid of freedom.
“The new film rules in Hong Kong will have a chilling effect,” Piscatella told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year after the new censorship law was announced, adding, “One of the last vestiges of free speech in Hong Kong is now gone. The result is self-censorship by filmmakers who now have to question what might run afoul of the new rules and increased scrutiny by financiers and distributors who now must consider that very same question.”
"The censorship of such content would come as no surprise in Mainland China, where any mention of the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy student protestors has been scrubbed from public discourse. But the apparent voluntary removal of the episode in Hong Kong — especially when done by a major U.S. media company — is a relatively new feature of civic life there."
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