{"id":39333,"date":"2021-11-29T15:51:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T06:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/29\/disney-channel-launches-in-hong-kong-without-the-simpsons-tiananmen-square-episode"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:51:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T06:51:29","slug":"disney-channel-launches-in-hong-kong-without-the-simpsons-tiananmen-square-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39333","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ channel launches in Hong Kong, without the Simpsons Tiananmen Square episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streaming channel went live this month, but without an episode in which the family visit China<\/p>\n<p>An episode of the Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is absent from Disney\u2019s streaming channel in Hong Kong, at a time when authorities are clamping down on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The missing episode adds to concerns that mainland-style censorship is becoming the norm in the international business hub, ensnaring global streaming giants and other major tech companies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/29\/disney-channel-launches-in-hong-kong-without-the-simpsons-tiananmen-square-episode\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streaming channel went live this month, but without an episode in which the family visit ChinaAn episode of the Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is absent from Disney\u2019s streaming channel in Hong Kong, at a time when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2438,48,238,431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-disney","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39334,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39333\/revisions\/39334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}