Disney is removing a "Simpsons" episode from its schedule in Hong Kong

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Scene from the "Simpsons" episode "One Angry Lisa": No longer available in Hong Kong

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Disney has once again removed an episode of The Simpsons from its Hong Kong streaming repertoire.

As early as November 2021, the US entertainment group took a single episode from a season, at that time there were references to the bloody crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.

The renewed intervention in the "The Simpsons" streaming offer is the episode "One Angry Lisa" from the 34th season of the series.

It is about how Lisa Simpson is called to serve on a jury at a court hearing and loses her faith in the US judiciary.

At the same time, her mother Marge buys a training bike to take part in a sports class.

Marge's trainer shows pictures of the Great Wall of China and says, "Look at the wonders of China - bitcoin mines and labor camps where kids make cell phones."

As reported by the Reuters news agency, among others, the episode, which was first streamed in October, is no longer available on the Hong Kong branch of Disney +.

Human rights groups and Western governments have repeatedly accused the Chinese government of repressing the predominantly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group in the northwestern region of Xinjiang and imprisoning large numbers in labor camps.

China denies that.

Until 2019, Hong Kong SAR enjoyed great artistic and political freedoms compared to mainland China.

Since the democracy protests, however, the authorities have been cracking down on activists, artists and members of the opposition.

In 2021, they enacted new censorship laws banning all content that violates the so-called Security Act.

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