Disney pulled a Simpsons episode because the company makes too much money from China

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Can The Simpsons be too controversial for Disney Plus? Apparently so -- that is, when the topic is China, and the audience is in Hong Kong.

Revenue-wise, China is a hugely important market for the Money — sorry, the Magic Kingdom, which probably explains why Disney decided to err on the side of caution in Hong Kong and keepepisode in question off of the company’s streamer, which is where you can catch watch old episodes of the classic comedy.

Hong Kong is, of course, where China is increasingly asserting more heavy-handed control these days. It’s, thus, also where an American animated series in which a mom, Marge Simpson, taking a spin class with images of the Great Wall of China displayed on the screen — and with an instructor telling the class that it’s a country where “children make smartphones” in “forced labor camps” — wouldn’t exactly play well with the regime.

A protester in Hong Kong holds up a blank piece of paper and a candle during a demonstration. The protesters took to the streets and held a vigil by offering candles, flowers, and blank sheets of white paper while chanting, “We do not want authoritarianism, do not want a monarchy” to express their opposition against President Xi Jinping.

There are believed to be up to 1,200 internment camps in the country where Uyghurs are being forcibly held, according to the . Explains the department via its website: “Forced labor is a central tactic used for this repression.”off Disney Plus for Hong Kong audiences, protestors there continue to advocate for democratic reform. To learn more along those lines, there’s a very good documentary on Netflix titled“Mobilized by teenage activist Joshua Wong, young citizens of Hong Kong take to the streets in a bid to preserve their history of autonomy from China.

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