{"id":1837661,"date":"2023-02-07T06:35:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837661"},"modified":"2023-02-07T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:37:15","slug":"disney-bends-to-chinese-censors-and-drops-simpsons-episode-referencing-slave-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-bends-to-chinese-censors-and-drops-simpsons-episode-referencing-slave-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Bends to Chinese Censors and Drops Simpsons Episode Referencing Slave Labor"},"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\">24<\/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-bends-to-chinese-censors-and-drops-simpsons-episode-referencing-slave-labor%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=1837661&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/article_Screenshot_2023-02-06_at_13.58.28.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Disney has removed an episode from\u00a0<em>The Simpsons<\/em>\u00a0Its streaming service in Hong Kong, which was referred to &#8220;forced labor camps&#8221; China\u00a0<em><a data-rapid_p=\"7\" data-v9y=\"1\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Financial Times\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/05d7df58-fc9a-4278-a0d7-3af5e34bc0c2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Financial Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This episode, which originally aired in October with the name &#8220;The Secret,&#8221; &#8220;One Angry Lisa,&#8221; A character may say: &#8220;Behold the wonders of China: Bitcoin mines, forced labor camps where children make smartphones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The quote is a reference to China&#8217;s mass incarceration of Uyghur Muslims in the\u00a0country&#8217;s Xinjiang region as part of an aggressive communist re-education program.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous human rights investigations have revealed evidence that Chinese authorities used forced sterilization, surveillance and slave labor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/08\/31\/china-new-un-report-alleges-crimes-against-humanity#:~:text=(Geneva)%20%E2%80%93%20A%20groundbreaking%20United,Human%20Rights%20Watch%20said%20today.\">Concluded<\/a> Count as crimes against humanity<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown when the episode was removed by Disney Plus Hong Kong or what extent of pressure the company was subject to. Both Disney representatives as well as the Beijing-controlled authorities in the area have so far declined comment.<\/p>\n<p>China has removed the episode as it continues to consolidate its control of the city. This was in response to the 1998 British Empire handover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Disney has been censored by Chinese authorities. The streaming service will be available in 2021\u00a0<a data-rapid_p=\"18\" data-v9y=\"1\" data-ylk=\"slk:cut another episode of The Simpsons\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/disney-plus-dropped-the-simpsons-episode-hong-kong-tiananmen-square-2021-11?utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Another episode can be cut<\/a>\u00a0This entry &#8220;Goo Goo Gai Pan&#8221; After a reference to Tiananmen square massacre in 1989 when Chinese state troopers brutally shot down unarmed pro\u00addemocracy demonstrators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney has removed an episode from\u00a0The Simpsons\u00a0Its streaming service in Hong Kong, which was referred to &#8220;forced labor camps&#8221; China\u00a0The Financial Times\u00a0reported Monday. This episode, which originally aired in October with the name &#8220;The Secret,&#8221; &#8220;One Angry Lisa,&#8221; A character may say: &#8220;Behold the wonders of China: Bitcoin mines, forced labor camps where children make &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1837664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[12914,4683,6041,4117,6344,3727,10264,4832,12637,9371],"class_list":["post-1837661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-simpsons","tag-bends","tag-censors","tag-chinese","tag-disney","tag-drops","tag-episode","tag-labor","tag-referencing","tag-slave"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837661","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}