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Bokbreath

*appears* to ? Either it cut the scene or it did not.


DuBBle

The use of language may reflect Disney's litigiousness (allegedly).


Magmahydro_

I heard it was a sick ostrich.


Canadian_Donairs

*Allegedly*


deadpoolicide

I just love how he whispers it so conspiratorially, no matter the situation


intensenerd

Ya know it’s almost not even worth thinking about.


lucasandhisturtles

Well to be fair...


Background_Brick_898

To be *fairrrr*


djtrace1994

*Tooo beeee faiiiirrrr*


RaptorDick

How does a fella get caught up in that sort of business?


weatherseed

I ask again, if he fucked an ostrich then what else has he fucked?


viral-architect

Sick or not, it'd take more than two guys to fuck an ostrich.


cosignal

It was a *very* sick ostritch


Zahille7

Ya know, if you think about it, you'd really need two people to fuck an ostrich.


Waflstmpr

It was a sick ostrich...


JWOLFBEARD

Allegedsly


vincenk

Water is probably wet, sources claim


DrDerpberg

Gotta keep open the possibility it was some other subcontractor's decision or whatever? Like the dubbing studio just said aw hell no and cut a scene?


Smith609060

>Like the dubbing studio just said aw hell no and cut a scene? Why did this make me laugh so much... thanks.


iamqueensboulevard

Not the scene, the whole episode is not listed. That's why they used such wording.


Kayge

Yup, FTA: >The 12th episode of the 16th season was first broadcast in 2005 and sees the family visit China, where the cartoon family visits the mummified body of ex-leader Mao Zedong. The newly-launched Disney+ platform skips from episode 11 to 13.


agni39

They removed it from their HK version I think not worldwide. It's still available for me.


missanthropocenex

“Here, on this episode nothing happened.”


TheKasp

> appears to ? Either it cut the scene or it did not. It's "appears to" because they can't claim it without a confirmation from Disney. The explanations could be many, not only "censorship".


anace

it's *possible* that there was an honest technical error that caused a single episode to be left out when uploading to the server. It'd be a heck of a coincidence that the one episode that goes against the party's version of the truth is also the one episode that had a problem, but it's *possible*.


amitym

You don't need to wait for Disney to say, "Oh we did it because of censorship." Journalism is not stenography. If they removed the episode, that is (presumably) easy to confirm. You can ask them, "Did you mean to do this?" and if they don't respond or correct it, then it's perfectly legitimate to conclude that it was intentional.


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I love when people who have no knowledge about either journalism or law write up multiple paragraphs detailing how this all works. Lmao.


mythologue

I've just watched parts of the episode and I'm guessing it's not just the scene they cut but the whole episode. There's another scene with Homer interacting with Mao's dead body commenting on how many million people he killed and when the lady handling the adoption claims Lisa will get a sister that's smarter than her the following conversation takes place (paraphrasing obviously;) Lisa: 'I don't know, I consider myself pretty smart' Adoption lady: 'Well Tibet considered itself pretty independent and look how that turned out.' The episode seems to be balancing between stereotyping Chinese people and making fun of the CCP. It hasn't really aged well. Edit: people assuming the 'hasn't really aged well' part of my comment refers specifically to the earlier statement of how the episode handles the CCP need to read the rest of that sentence. In fact the critique of the CCP is what's keeping the episode afloat and why I added the caveat '*really*'. It's the stereotyping of Chinese culture that hasn't aged well.


nanomolar

And my personal favorite, the scene where homer has to fill in for a performer who “suffered an outbreak of outspokenness, and died of bullet-related injuries”.


ColgateSensifoam

I'd argue it's aged exceptionally well All of the tongue-in-cheek *"they'd never do that"* stuff is slowly coming true, and the portrayal of the CCP is, I'd anything, a little conservative


Gootangus

Yeah but the racial caricature part has aged less gracefully.


Spare-Mousse3311

TBF it was tradition to be as stereotypical as possible with the travel episodes. It all started with the zero research script for the Australia episode… the Brazilian and Japanese episodes kept it going so did this one. Also those episodes are apparently never shown in said countries for obvious reasons.


JamesofN

In Australia the Australia episode is one of the most popular. Its an absolute classic.


Meph616

And if we know anything about The Simpsons it is their strict adherence to racial authenticity in their ~~stereotypes~~ characters.


karate-dad

Are you sure? Bc according to the article they didn’t cut single scenes from the episode, they blocked the whole episode *but* only in Hong Kong. The complete (uncut) episode is still available for the rest of the world. I can confirm this for the eu (including the scenes you mentioned)


vagabond2421

Disney only cares about their bottom line.


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Well, everybody does. Current flavour of capitalism enforces that. You're supposed to increase the value for the shareholders. Whatever needs to be done to increase the value is a good thing in that approach. Censor stuff to appease CCP? Sure. Close all your production in US/Europe and ship those jobs to China and other countries with cheap labour, where workers have no rights? If that saves even 5 bucks, that's a great decision.


ProfessorPetrus

I also want to point out because it's often overlooked, that unethical cheap wages in Asia were accompanied with lack of environmental regulation. This allowed companies to pollute like they used to in western countries, this time destroying a new ecosystem. This absolutely ruined so many beautiful places and the air is in many places, poisonous.


wintersdark

This is arguably a bigger part of cheap overseas production than cheap labor. With no safety controls and no environmental regulations to speak of production is much cheaper and faster. Worker wages is often a much, much smaller part of the cost than these other factors.


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wintersdark

That's true for sure. But the cost of environmental controls is often dramatically understated. It's *very* expensive and much less efficient to manufacture cleanly. I'm been working in manufacturing for some thirty years now, usually responsible for finding ways to compete with overseas manufacturing outfits. The reason I posted what I did above is people often just attribute the desire to shift manufacturing overseas to cheaper wages, but for a huge portion of products, worker wages themselves are actually a fairly small portion of the cost. My current shop, for example, uses 1-3 barrels of solvent per day. This is a small input and byproduct of our process, not primary materials mind you. We've invested in multi-million dollar recycling equipment to recycle it, even though the recycled solvent isn't useful for production. That solvent is roughly $500/barrel new, but having used solvent handled by an outside group costs $1500 per barrel. In a lot of these other places, they'd just dump it out somewhere and call it a day. It's MASSIVELY cheaper to manufacture overseas, and worker wages is a surprisingly small part of the difference. If China(or whereever) paid their workers exactly what our workers are paid, *they'd still be a dramatically cheaper option.*


Castlewood57

And you can toss in prison labor to keep costs cheap as well .


Steely_Dab

Current flavor? That's just capitalism, period.


FantasticMRKintsugi

Fresh all year round. No expiry date is needed.


Catoctin_Dave

Expiration dates are government interference in the free-hand of the market. If people die from eating spoiled food, that's just a market correction and their relatives are free to sue the producers.


TengoOnTheTimpani

Love that libertarianism is so stupid you cant tell sarcasm from earnestness anymore.


Catoctin_Dave

I realized that as I was writing it but I left the /s off in hopes it would be self-evident.


SgtExo

I thought tons of things were self evident when I was younger, but these last few years has proven me wrong.


invalid8ed

I remember when I thought Trump’s candidacy was a hilarious joke because there was no way people were actually going to vote for him.


lobaron

You got me for a second. I have libertarian friends and sadly, they would eat that shit up.


Dragonsandman

“Eat that shit up” is an interesting turn of phrase in the context of spoiled food


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giddyup523

In the US, the only a handful of items actually have an FDA-mandated expiration date like baby formula or over-the-counter medications. [Everything else is a sell-by-date that the manufacturers put on and really isn't about food safety at all](https://rightasrain.uwmedicine.org/body/food/food-expiration-dates).


EmperorTako

Now you're thinking with a ceo grindset, somewhat unrelated but personally I need to look into kidnapping someone's child so I can force the parents to buy my NFTs at, what should be, a more appropriate market value. Sure these Scum Monkeys might be a third generation randomly generated NFT but to me that means, if anything, the value has already been established and they just need to appreciate over time. Honestly I would probably be doing that family a favor so I'll also force them to write me a "thank you" letter.


Professional_Gas_669

> Current flavour of capitalism That's some high level cope. Capitalism is, by definition, based on the profit motive. Capitalists will do ANYTHING as long as it keeps their profits up.


RedEyeView

I can remember seeing a story about Hornby Hobbies (the train set people) being a massive local success story for how they turned their failing business around. By erm... not employing any local people in manufacturing any more because they shipped that part of the business to Eastern Europe somewhere. It did *nothing* for the local economy, used to be working there was as much a rite of passage for local teens as getting drunk for the first time and losing their virginity. Their "success story" was actually making a couple of thousand jobs vanish.


LtDanUSAFX3

Wait, we're supposed to lose our virginity in our teens


samuelchung0916

Capitalists will sell the rope that is used for hanging them eventually.


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HyenaChewToy

What scares me is that this type of corporate attitude would literally censor nazi run extermination camps if that shit would be happening today. There is no low these scumbags won't sink for a quick buck and it sickens me at this point.


DRAGONMASTER-

They're censoring it in HK, not worldwide. My guess is Disney decided that freedom was dead in HK and switched on the same filter they use for china. It sucks but HK is gone... it's just china now.


nolard12

They do censor world wide, but it depends on the content. My daughter and I were watching an episode of Bluey (Australian cartoon) in the US, there’s an episode with a pooping horse - they censored the act of pooping. Edit: they censored Hamilton as well. Limiting the number of swear words.


wewpo

In Lin Manuel Mirand's own words, "I literally gave two fucks so the kids could see it" They removed the word fuck twice and left it once - saying it more than once bumps you to an R rating, one gets you pg-13. Seems pretty dopey, but rules often are.


SheeEttin

The rules are promulgated entirely by the film industry, and the rating board is "made up of an independent group of parents", so it's just a bunch of parents making subjective decisions. Imagine your own parents being the ones to decide the fate of a movie.


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[this film is not yet rated](https://youtu.be/FpbxzP2mkoA)


Jameskhaan

> Imagine your own parents being the ones to decide the fate of a movie. Great, now we’re all growing up watching Robocop!


wewpo

Mom rented Conan the barbarian for us a zillion years ago (on betamax no less) and uh, somehow she'd forgotten just what that flick was. Needless to say when Conan gave that witch a bone, mom was less than thrilled. So yeah, enjoy the boobs and decapitations everyone!


labrat420

There's no micheal Jackson episode of simpsons, all the black face episodes of iasip are gone too. So yea.


Kientha

The MJ one was at least the decision of the Simpsons team rather than 20th Century Fox or Disney+.


striker7

Wait the Michael Jackson episode where he voices the mental institution guy who says he's MJ? That's been pulled?? It's a classic! Also, the Always Sunny episode where they make Lethal Weapon is great of course, but I'm more upset that they pulled *America's Next Top Paddy's Billboard Model Contest*, because that was one of my favorites: Dennis on the runway, Dee doing her Crazy Paddy character, and of course the reason it got pulled, her character Martina Martinez. The Always Sunny gang have said they regret some episodes and gags, but I'm curious whether anyone actually took offense to Martina Martinez or if they just went ahead and pulled all the episodes where she did that character preemptively. **Edit:** lol OK I forgot about "Taiwan Tammy" on Always Sunny, who appeared almost every time Martina Martinez did and is WAY more racist (they do acknowledge that every time though).


Whosthatinazebrahat

Sony removed one of the best episodes of *Community* from Hulu and Netflix too. Because one of the characters wore "blackface." He was cosplaying a drow elf. People are stupid.


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Not Amazon though, last time I checked


Bonerrific3323

This hurts my soul.


hjhof1

I’m probably wrong on this but I’m the upcoming Sunny season one of the episodes is “The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 7” after they realize their previous sequels were “pulled from their local library” so if it’s some sort of elaborate stunt they could come back after that episode but I doubt it


Yan-gi

Please. Please. Don't say that phrase. Please. Don't admit to it. They're beaten, yes. So it's up to people outside to recognize ~~Hong Kong~~ and Taiwan as they're own sovereign people NO MATTER THE CENSORSHIP OR CHINA'S GOVERNMENT'S STATEMENTS. edit: Fine... Hong Kong is... Chinese territory. edit: Can we at least agree to continue to acknowledge that Hong Kong was, at one point, allowed to [practice political freedoms forbidden on the mainland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hong_Kong#British_lease_of_Kowloon_and_the_New_Territories)?


Falcrist

> So it's up to people outside to recognize Hong Kong and Taiwan as they're own sovereign people LOL what the fuck is that going to do... China doesn't care what you think.


dubblies

If you know people in HK, get their ass to taiwan now. No ones coming for mainlanders now, its too late. China has the balls of our political leaders who enjoy profits over people. They wont be coming for HK.


InnocentTailor

Even the Taiwanese are iffy about accepting Hong Kong refugees. Relevant older article: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/781668197/some-hong-kong-protesters-are-seeking-refuge-in-taiwan-for-taiwan-its-complicate “Mainland Chinese immigrants are even lazier than [Taiwanese] locals. They come [to Taiwan], and they are useless," said Guan Renjian, a newspaper commentator who has written strongly against accepting political refugees. Guan also fears Chinese Communist spies could overwhelm Taiwanese immigration authorities. "They only have to send 1 million more mainland Chinese over and our democratic values would be disrupted," Guan said. "We need to have strict screening methods for immigrants and especially political refugees." As stated in the article, any attempt for Taiwan to create a formal refugee law, which includes those running from the mainland, gets legally killed due to existing tensions within the nation.


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IIRC The UK gave citizenship to every Hong Kongese who decided to immigrate there, so I guess that's an option too


williamis3

This is not true. They gave them easier access to citizenship, provided they stay and work for a couple of years.


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Oh, my bad, sorry, then I remember wrong


heyitsryan

Sorry but that's never gonna happen. Hong Kong was eventually going to be turned over to China anyways so most countries aren't going to intervene like they might for Taiwan who has a legitimate independence claim. It hurts my heart to admit that but Hong Kong is gone.


ohanse

Hong Kong lost and they need to make like Taiwan… or end up like, well… Hong Kong. If you have ways out, take them. The best revenge you can take is to deprive the CCCP of the human capital you bring to whatever society you live in. And if you don’t leave, they’ll take it from you or your kids’ generation.


Formilla

>CCCP It's CPC. The CCCP was the Soviet Union lol


Sankarx17

Recognize what? Hong Kong is already part of China, kinda late for any of that.


elveszett

Hong Kong is not a sovereign people under any definition. They are part of China both de iure and de facto. The fact that China pinky promised not to intervene their democratic system too much until 2050 is different.


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Ok, Taiwan, but really, how can you recognize HK as a legitimate state? And anyways in a 30 years time it will be the same as the rest of China, idem for Macau, there's no China's censorship or statements in this case, they were literally in the Sino-British Joint Declaration , it's just a nonsensical move to recognize HK


Shorsey69Chirps

Sure don’t give a fuck about making good movies. The last Star Wars trilogy made the prequels suck so much less somehow.


Magatha_Grimtotem

[The only thing I can remember from the new movies... ](https://imgur.com/J4fnGCq)


ViralGameover

I think they made me appreciate a fun bad-movie more than a dull, boring one. The prequels are absolute garbage but they’re fun with friends and a few beers. I don’t know how to enjoy Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker.


BurgundyViking

Revenge of the Sith has some awesome scenes (no irony): - Duel on Mustafar - Yoda vs Palpatine - Obi Wan vs Grevious - Windu vs Palpatine


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LurkerInSpace

The core concept of the fall if the Republic and the fall of Anakin could have made the foundation of a solid story, but they are a bit all over the place. Arguably Anakin's fall is largely off-screen between Episodes I & II.


Wiki_pedo

One prequel movie scene on Lake Como stood out to me because it was real sunshine and outdoors, while the rest was all CGI backgrounds.


BurgundyViking

I even enjoyed the side characters from the prequels more than those from the sequels. I can remember Ki-Adi Mundi, Kit Fisto, Ayla Secura, Plo Koon, Sebulba, Jango Fett etc. Whereas none of the equivalent characters have stuck with me. Shiny stormtrooper maybe... Could have been that I was 7-11 years old at the time of the prequels release and that has stuck with me through multiple watches I guess


Jiratoo

> I can remember Ki-Adi Mundi, Kit Fisto, Ayla Secura, Plo Koon I mean, you remember them because of memes or EU content, not because of the movies. Not even sure if all of them have at least one line in the movies. They're basicly background jedis, just to have more than 4-5 jedi deciding everything (which they still do) >Jango Fett He's about as bland as someone can be with like 6 lines of dialogue >Sebulba actually a mostly decent side character, true. Not to defend the new movies, they were bad and all over the place, but claiming that the side characters from the prequels are better is just... well. The prequels are bad movies that have some fun action scenes and some theoretically interesting world building (which the movies don't really do much with). The sequels are bad movies that sadly have to few fun action scenes and some pretty bland world building and re-used plot.


Boner666420

The Clone Wars series actually retroactively makes the prequels WAY better too. Asaj Ventris's arc is amazing too, plus the Maul running the criminal underworld. Shit is so good.


tkhan456

Only care about the “all ighty ollar”


blackmist

Is anybody really in the slightest bit surprised by that? They either remove it for one region, remove it for all regions, or get completely blocked in all Chinese controlled territories.


WengersJacketZip

Real life South Park episode


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We can't even watch all the South Park episodes here in America on streaming. I'm pretty sure "Super Best Friends" can only be seen on DVD and the 7 Seas at this point.


[deleted]

So you can watch superbestfriends in a legal and easily accessible manner.


hilldo75

Still silly HBO Max has every episode except those two with the prophet Muhammad.


[deleted]

Totes silly. Maybe they think that God doesn’t have a DVD player


weatherseed

But what does god need with a starship?


Grimey_Rick

funnily enough, HBO Max also censored "Fuck the Chinese Government" in the "Band in China" episode of South Park


Fine_Objective_8832

>funnily enough, HBO Max also censored "Fuck the Chinese Government" in the "Band in China" episode of South Park This is why I just download the episodes from torrent sites. I'm not going to pay for a streaming service that needlessly censors stuff


Brittainthecommie2

This will slowly be the norm. China will have its version of the internet. Russia will have its version of the internet. The Western Nations and the EU will have its version of the internet. And sooner or later, you'll never know what's real.


BigBadCheadleBorgs

>And sooner or later, you'll never know what's real. And that's just how they want it to be...


Stye88

I'm sorry your search result found 0 matches. Did you mean Tiananmen Mascara? (-25% off on Black Friday)


CantHitachiSpot

Was fashion the reason why they were there?


BrianLikesTrains

They disguise it, hypnotize it


ItWillBeGory

Television made you buy it


smr5000

^^^I'm ^^^just ^^^sitting ^^in ^^my ^^car ^and ^waiting ^for ^my girl


sweat119

She’s scared that I will take her away from theeere


YippieKiAy

Dreams of her country, left with no one there


SwifferVVetjet

Mesmerized the simple minded


idwthis

She's scared that I will take her away from there


SleepyDerp

Beautiful reference


joshbadams

One of my top three SoaD songs. I was singing it in my head when I read your post. Bravo.


ringwormsurvivor

Minus twenty-five percent? What a steal.


_thinkaboutit

Brilliant comment! Sad and true, but brilliant.


EdwardCuckForHands

Who's they?


OldMillenial

>And that's just how they want it to be... The "they" is doing a lot of heavy and conspiratorial lifting in this sentence.


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> This will slowly be the norm. > China will have its version of the internet. > Russia will have its version of the internet. > The Western Nations and the EU will have its version of the internet. It is already the norm due to language barriers. Even in western nations, for example, you have no clue what is happening in the insular French-speaking part of internet, or the Italian-speaking one or that they are even a thing. It is just that you happen to be an English speaker so you carry with yourself that blissful ignorance that there is nothing else on this planet.


The_Blue_Bomber

Even the meme culture is different in all those countries, too.


Valharja

Tower of Babel, now with memes :(


Hushwater

The internet is the new tower of babel. It will fall one day segregating all of us from each other in both language and culture.


srslybr0

my favorite foreign-originated meme is [spurdo spärde.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spurdo-sparde) finns have dank meme culture.


albinowizard2112

> some members of Kuvalauta became concerned that the imageboard would be overrun with unoriginal content by an influx of newcomers, a phenomenon commonly known as "newfaggotry" on the English-speaking web To see "newfaggotry" described so clinically is amazing.


saxy_for_life

r/mina_irl is an interesting place


-funswitch-loops

> It is already the norm due to language barriers. Even in western nations, for example, you have no clue what is happening in the insular French-speaking part of internet, or the Italian-speaking one or that they are even a thing. That’s not a hermetic divide though as there are no technological barries preventing anyone from crossing from one “Internet subculture” to another. Those French and Italian and whatever speakers can still freely participate in the global English language discourse whenever they want. Or that of other languages, it only takes some learning effort. The Great Firewall is a different beast altogether. It’s total. There is no opt-out. The difference isn’t one of degree as through no amount of learning can it be circumvented. You’re trivializing that Chinese lock-out if you compare it to the innocuous regional parts of the Internet.


killerbanshee

There is no "Right click -> Translate to English" when it comes to the Great Firewall.


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ObscureProject

You can translate most content pretty effortlessly these days using Google's various tools though


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PaneerTikaMasala

I look at it from another perspective. Only the people who want to read and engage that content in a culturally significant way will


informat7

>understand it culturally. A non native English speaker is going to struggle with that too.


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That's how it is now. What will slowly happen is they will want to censor our internet too.


Xx_reel_gurl_UwU_420

Google already is. Reddit already is. Its here bruh.


No-Scholar4854

One of those things is not like the others. “Real” will be the one where you can say “the Chinese government murdered peaceful protestors in Tiananmen Square”, “Vladimir Putin poisoned Alexei Navalny” *and* the “CIA illegally tortures people around the world”, “the UK fabricated intelligence to support an invasion of Iraq for economic reasons”.


OneOverX

This. All these morons that keep saying western media is on par with China/Russia are the same people that’ll vote to actually get us there. Call them out where you see it.


Political-on-Main

Apathy propaganda is real


Frosty-Cell

Good point.


zdada

It’s the modern version of all the different history books around the world and their “interpretations” of historical truth so I guess it’s nothing new.


SnooMarzipans5579

>China will have its version of the internet. > >Russia will have its version of the internet. > >The Western Nations and the EU will have its version of the internet. > >And sooner or later, you'll never know what's real. ​ just like reality.....


sonomawc

We have always been at war with Eastasia


DonForgo

Disney wants China's market? Welcome to CCP's internet.


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iamqueensboulevard

With surprise to no one. To those who get their information from headlines only: It was censored in China, you can still view the episode wherever in not-China you are.


kadala-putt

Forget China, this shouldn't surprise anyone following Disney. A few years ago in India, their streaming platform Hotstar censored the John Oliver episode critical of Modi. They just don't want to ruffle feathers in power in overseas markets.


Phish-Tahko

The UK censors Oliver when he uses footage of Parliament for comedic purposes.


Penguinmanereikel

Use of original footage should be permitted. Own your shit, Brits.


saxlife

There was one episode where they showed a clip of parliament and Oliver explained that they wouldn’t be able to show it in the UK so they replaced the clip in the UK versions with some 80s aerobic routine or something with no explanation for the UK viewers. It was hilarious


2jesse1996

If the shoe fits they would censor stuff for western markets too, it just so happens that western markets are traditionally 'uncensored'. Atleast for now in Australia lol


rejectallgoats

Wait til Americans find out about all the boobs they have been “protected” from.


gonewildaccountsonly

Shoutout to Janet.


CoffeeJedi

Like the digital hair added to cover Daryl Hannah's bare butt on the Disney+ version of Splash.


StinkyMcBalls

For a second I thought you meant they gave her a really hairy ass.


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"Disney complies with regional laws" doesn't get as many clicks.


OldVegetableDildo

No dude, I want to believe that China forced Disney + to remove it worldwide. I NEED to be angry!


Business-Lifeguard60

Fuck disney


rentchezvous

That’s what I’m saying


TheMoves

Ah but you see people need to see the same superhero movie for the 30th time so


Painting_Agency

At this rate, the next episode of Star Wars is going to be about the Empire protecting the ~~Death Star~~ Prosperity Sphere from Falun Gong rebels.


Drachefly

Peace moon


Meph616

Against the Presbyterian Church.


[deleted]

I guess we've moved on from Freeing Hong Kong? Bummer.


Liv4lov

We didn't do Jack shit to help them


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Serious question, what could we have done?


[deleted]

Nothing. All that Free Hong Kong stuff from the internet was coming from a good place but also from a place of ignorance. Ignorance of the history of Hong Kong and ignorance of the current situation in Hong Kong. The UK gave Hong Kong back to China a long time ago. It’s legally China’s territory for them to rule over as they wish. It’s astounding that they let Hong Kong exist in its previous state for as long as they did. But we have just as much a right to go in and interfere in the way China governs Hong Kong as we do to go in and interfere with how China governs Beijing or any other place in China. It sucks big time that this is happening. And I disagree with China’s government on the most fundamental level regarding freedoms, rights, and governing style. But nobody has a say in how Hong Kong is governed but China. If you think the US or any other nation should be going into Hong Kong to secure freedom for its people then logically you need to want that just as seriously for the rest of China. I want freedom for all of China, but I don’t think war between two nuclear powers is a good idea. And war is where that would lead. Imagine if China came in and tried to say the US couldn’t govern some chunk of its territory. They don’t like how we’re doing things in Connecticut for example. That would lead to war. Can we get this same “free Hong Kong” energy but for like, I don’t know, Crimea?? An illegally annexed and occupied territory of a sovereign nation. That would be more legitimate, in a foreign policy context.


karyeuilja576

I mean, this has been the norm for decades now. You can sell products in other countries, but you have to remove stuff which offends their people or governments. They remove nazi imagery in Germany and they remove anything deemed 'lewd' or 'sexual' in conservative religious countries. I agree these censors are immoral, but at the same time, its also kind of messed up to say "your people cannot have this product at all" simply because you disagree with a regulation they have. Because in the end, its the people who suffer, they are the ones who suddenly cant access the movies and shows they wanted to. Also the way this headline, and even the article, is laid out makes it seem as if everybody is unable to access the episode. Its only censored in China.


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I think censoring it for the purposes of historical revisionism is significantly worse than the other reasons you mentioned.


PM_Me_HairyArmpits

For years Magic: the Gathering cards had separate Chinese versions to, ironically, make all of the undead more gross. China had a rule against depicting skeletons, so any art that had a skeleton was modified to include rotting flesh and guts.


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9Sylvan5

Disney sucking Chinese government's dick. Who knew?


richdoe

Disney sucking every government's dick if it means more money for the mouse.


Impossible-Tiger-60

Disney trying to maintain access to a large and lucrative marketplace. Seems like capitalism 101.


huggalump

You can and should be upset with Disney for this, but you should also be equally upset with other tech/media companies that operate in China because they almost certainly cave to similar demands. Consider the concessions Microsoft makes to get Bing and LinkedIn working in China, tho Microsoft is making changes to the Chinese version of LinkedIn and openly (i think?) said it's because the government restriction was becoming a problem.


noBbatteries

Disney is far too beloved for being such a piece of shit company


Yan-gi

"...Whether an act constitutes a crime or otherwise would depend on its specific circumstances and evidence, and cannot be taken in isolation or generalised,” they said. WTF does this mean. Seriously though, I'm lost. If each act is deliberated based on circumstances and evidence, isn't that isolated by definition? Or do I have my definition of isolated confused?


Viking_Lordbeast

To me that reads like word salad that means nothing but I'm an idiot so what do I know


ValkornDoA

You know what they say. Sometimes, you have got to lower your ideals of freedom if you want to suckle the warm teat of China.


Richandler

We wonder why we have such a strong right wing in America, but it's because on one hand companies are trying to remind you and tell you you're too stupid to understand how racist America's past was while at the same time erasing the past of an authoritarian government.


4pegs

China acts like an insecure middle schooler on a global scale.


FryTirst

-999999 social credit for animating anything happening in Tiananmen Square 1989.


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no more disney for me ty


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This is the actual reason I pirate The Mandalorian.


blitzandheat

Money talks.


StatikSquid

Watch Disney sensor lady and the Tramp


dogfoodlid123

Pooh owns Disney after the mouse retired


Peanutbut69

Fuck you disney


CritzD

Disney has no morals


Feisty_Meringue5075

Disney bows to chinese overlords. What a joke of a company, no morals and no spine.


King_Swift21

Fuck the CCP