Disney cuts Simpsons 'forced labor' episode in Hong Kong

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

2 hours ago

HONG KONG (AP) — Walt Disney Co. has removed an episode from cartoon series The Simpsons that included a reference to “forced labor camps” in China from its streaming service in Hong Kong.

The company declined to comment on why the episode, “One Angry Lisa” from The Simpsons’ 34th season, was not available to stream on the Disney Plus streaming service in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory, according to checks by The Associated Press.

The episode first aired on television in October and it was not clear when the episode was removed from the Hong Kong streaming service.

In the episode, Simpsons character Marge Simpson takes a virtual spin class whose instructor is in front of a virtual background of the Great Wall of China and says: “Behold the wonders of China. Bitcoin mines, forced labor camps where children make smartphones.”



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[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. Kinda of tempest in teapot compared to the banning of school books in America, yes?

And how about the attempt to rewrite the history of white colonialism and slavery in America?

Focus, guys, this is another balloon distraction story from your intrepid American media.

Children in forced labor camps making cell phones? No.

Lifting hundreds of millions of children, in decades of massive economic growth, out of poverty? Yes.

But it’s in a Simpson cartoon so it must be true. What more evidence do you need!

[oldsoftie]

2. Here's a Dept of Labor list of things made in China with forced & child labor:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods-print?items_per_page=10&combine=china

There's a LOT.
all the more reason for us to start making it harder for US companies to make things in China. When there are dozens of other countries who would LOVE the business if we cant bring it back HERE. The CHIPs act was a good start, but we need MORE.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm sure there are some out there who could write some good laws to help force this issue. We are sending tons of money to China for them to use against us, Asia & a lot of the rest of the world.
Start reading labels.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. Here's one on the list in America!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143030823

Coincidentally in the news today!

[EX500rider]

9. Yes a handful working voluntarily in the US is just like China:

Since 2017, Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have detained an estimated one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims. Detainees and prisoners are subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, cultural and political indoctrination, and forced labor.

[oldsoftie]

10. Your excuses are about as lame as the Chinese media. They pay well apparently.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. It's getting difficult to convert my Renimbi to Yankee dollars, true, but other countries it's np.

Wonder how much Max Boot of the Washington Post, columnist, is paid by China in comparison?

[treestar]

3. talk about overreaction

I'd never heard of that episode. Now I have. And am more aware of the forced labor there.

[Coventina]

4. I believe that's an example of the Streisand effect. n/t

[ZonkerHarris]

5. All of Hollywood is cowed by China and the money they have invested here.

Fucking idiots.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Just like they did to Nazi Germany.

[ZonkerHarris]

8. Studios have a long history of knuckling under to everyone but the unions here.