{"id":107332,"date":"2021-11-30T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107332"},"modified":"2021-11-29T18:45:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:45:44","slug":"bloomberg-disney-omits-the-simpsons-tiananmen-episode-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107332","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Disney+ Omits \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 Tiananmen Episode in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Disney+, which launched in Hong Kong on Nov. 16, episodes 11 and 13 of season 16 are viewable in the Chinese territory, but not episode 12, which first aired in 2005. That episode was available over the weekend in Singapore, where Disney+ launched earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first notable time an American streaming giant has censored content in Hong Kong,\u201d said Kenny Ng, an associate professor specializing in film censorship at Hong Kong Baptist University. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, the whole story is for streaming companies to be more tailored to a Chinese audience and to not offend the Chinese government,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is likely to continue in the future with more companies with financial interests in China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-11-29\/disney-omits-the-simpsons-tiananmen-episode-in-hong-kong\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disney+ omits an episode of \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d in Hong Kong that mentions the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, in what appears to be one of the first cases of a major U.S. streaming giant censoring content in the city <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3bqWnPtR3m\">https:\/\/t.co\/3bqWnPtR3m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bloomberg (@business) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/business\/status\/1465177973166850050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Disney+, which launched in Hong Kong on Nov. 16, episodes 11 and 13 of season 16 are viewable in the Chinese territory, but not episode 12, which first aired in 2005. That episode was available over the weekend in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107332\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,589,168,133,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-movies-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107336,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107332\/revisions\/107336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}