{"id":1434226,"date":"2022-04-12T21:46:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T01:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434226"},"modified":"2022-04-12T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T01:47:16","slug":"disney-wont-comment-on-shanghai-park-workers-trapped-in-lockdown-but-continues-to-fight-florida-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-wont-comment-on-shanghai-park-workers-trapped-in-lockdown-but-continues-to-fight-florida-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Won&#039;t Comment on Shanghai Park Workers Trapped in Lockdown But Continues to Fight Florida Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisney-wont-comment-on-shanghai-park-workers-trapped-in-lockdown-but-continues-to-fight-florida-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434226&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Walt Disney Co. is choosing to remain silent as thousands of its Shanghai Disney Resort workers are believed to be trapped in lockdown as part of the CCP\u2019s draconian \u201czero-COVID\u201d policy. \u00a0The company\u2019s refusal to comment stands in stark contrast to its vocal political activism in Florida, where it is seeking to repeal the state\u2019s anti-grooming Parental Rights in Education law.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Disney didn\u2019t respond to Breitbart News\u2019 request for comment about the safety and well-being of the company\u2019s Shanghai park \u201ccast members.\u201d It is estimated Disney employs more than 10,000 people at the park, which was forced to close indefinitely to the public on March 21.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Shanghai has imposed blanket lockdown measures to combat the latest coronavirus surge, compelling residents to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/11\/videos-shanghai-residents-trapped-in-lockdown-scream-from-their-windows-fight-over-limited-food\/\">scrounge for food<\/a> and essential human necessities. As Breitbart News reported, the situation has become so dire that the CCP\u00a0has deployed the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) to keep people locked in their homes at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20636633\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239859265.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20636633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239859265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A general view shows a residential area at night during a COVID-19 lockdown in the Jing\u2019an district in Shanghai on April 9, 2022. (HECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The closure of Shanghai Disney represents a huge loss for Disney, which invested an estimated $5.5 billion to launch the park \u00a0in 2016. Then-CEO Bob Iger led a charm offensive intended to cement the company\u2019s warm relationship with Communist Party leaders in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>With so much invested in China, Disney has been unwilling to criticize the CCP\u2019s human rights abuses, and has even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2019\/10\/08\/espn-caves-to-china-silences-hosts-hong-kong-protests\/\">imposed censorship on its American journalists<\/a>, forbidding them to publicly discuss subjects like the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong that might jeopardize the company\u2019s Chinese dealings.<\/p>\n<p>But Disney has no such reservations when it comes to taking left-wing political positions at home, especially in Florida, where the company has enjoyed unparalleled legal privileges granted by the state. Disney recently vowed to continue fighting the Florida Parental Rights law after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed it into law last month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement from The Walt Disney Company on signing of Florida legislation: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UVI7Ko3aKS\">pic.twitter.com\/UVI7Ko3aKS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Walt Disney Company (@WaltDisneyCo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WaltDisneyCo\/status\/1508494672817123330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Disney\u2019s political activism could threaten its legal privileges. GOP lawmakers in Florida are considering reviewing\u00a0the company\u2019s long-standing right of self-rule that gives it wide freedoms to oversee itself. Lawmakers in Congress have also suggested reviewing Disney\u2019s copyright protections on valuable intellectual properties including Mickey Mouse.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow David <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Ng on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at\u00a0<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walt Disney Co. is choosing to remain silent as thousands of its Shanghai Disney Resort workers are believed to be trapped in lockdown as part of the CCP\u2019s draconian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}